Archive for the ‘flora’ Category
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
(You know what, girlfriend, I’m just raising the issue on this one, I don’t have all the deets.)
So, we’ve got the official flower of San Francisco busting out in Golden Gate Park right now, you know, a burst of late summer color just when most of the other flowers in GGP have gone away, and now I see that our big annual show , the American Dahlia Society National Dahlia Festival and Competition , is going to be way down there in San Jose this year on August 20-21?
So, we’ve got a whole bunch of dahlia sitting out there in Golden Gate Park (right there just east of the Conservatory of Flowers, you know that building what cost $25,000,000 to fix up) right now and we’ve got a Hall of Flowers Building right there near 9th Avenue and Lincoln as a place to host the show, as per usual, but we don’t have the show in 2011?
I cry foul.
What did you do, Rec and Park, drive away yet another event? You know, with your fees and whatnot?
I cry foul once again.
Anywho, here’s a big old bumblebee what just looooves our Dahlia Garden. But look out for that stinger – don’t mess with Texas!
Click to expand – Canon 1D Mark II with 70-200 mm 2.8 IS Classic with totally sick 500D close-up lens attachment (that I sure as Hell didn’t pay $400 for – $100 is more like it, back in the day . Later on I got proper macro lenses…)
Speaking of which, we’ve also fee’d away other annual traditions, like when we sent the Love Parade over to the East Bay. You know, after just killing last year’s effort outright. Good-bye LovEvolution.
Looking at you, Rec and Park, looking at you, MayorWilleBrownGavinNewsomEdleeDowntown dynasty:
Via W. Kilinger’s Photostream
Sometimes I just don’t know.
J’accuse!
J’accuse J’accuse J’accuse!
What will we lose next?
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
I don’t go around our Yelp four-star-rated Rose Garden Yelp five-star-rated Dahlia Dell near our Conservatory of Flowers .
But San Francisco’s official flower doesn’t really get going until August so roses will have to do until then.
Can you see the photographer here, with the Twinflash hanging off the lens and a water spray bottle hanging off the belt? That’s how some of them do it:
Via Glenn Franco Simmons – click to expand
Oh, and here’s my effort, on a dreaded sunny in the West Bay, showing people milling about the plots:
All right, see you there!
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Thursday, July 14th, 2011
If monkeys were red , that is.
You can pick up the blooms and then put them on your backpack or something. They’ll cling just like a real hand.
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
See?
From what they used to call the Mexican Garden in what they used to call Strybing Arboretum, which, for seven decades and up until just last year, used to have free admission:
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
This is what you can see inside Strybing Arboretum this time of year:
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And outside, what you’ll see are a bunch of tourists debating the merits of paying $28 or whatever to enter the gates. Usually, they walk off dejectedly.
Oh well.
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
The reason why is that once a tree goes in, it can’t be removed for any reason, more or less .
So what’s the point of the situation you can see here, what’s the point of having these trees in the middle of a sidewalk?
Mind your head, as trees are more important than people, apparently:
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San Francisco has too many trees on sidewalks.
We should take some of them out…
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Yet another addition to the urban “canopy” in San Francisco from the FUF :
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Let’s call it a crowd of 150 today that gathered at the Main Gate of Strybing Arboretum to protest the permanent imposition of admission fees.
See it for yourself – you can catch Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi offering his thoughts:
Quintin Mecke was on hand representing Assemblymember Tom Ammiano’s office and somebody else spoke for Supervisor John Avalos. Noticed Aaron Peskin in the audience as well.
All the while, there was absolutely nobody on or near the Main Lawn just inside the admission gate. Presenting your empty Strybing Arboretum:
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But that’s the way the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society likes it.
You see, they love plants but they hate people .
Oh well.
Arboretum Fees Don’t Even Pay the Bills
Keep the Arboretum Free
Keep the Strybing Arboretum (Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park) Free!
Debate Over the Garden Fee
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
It’s on at San Francisco’s Arbo today.
Deets below. See you there!
Do any of these people approve of the new fees at Strybing Arboretum ? A few, the gardeners mostly:
Saturday April 2nd, 2011
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW On April 6th, 2011, the Budget Committee of the Board of Supervisors will be making a crucial decision on the future of the fee, either free admissions for all or a permanent non-resident fee.
SUPPORT- Ordinance 110113 sponsored by Supervisors Avalos, Campos, Kim, Mar and Mirkarimi to use Prop N tax revenues as a sustainable solution to support a free public garden.
OPPOSE- Ordinance 110225 sponsored by the Mayor for a permanent fee.
After 7 months the fee has been a failure . Only $54,800 out of a promised $250,000 has been collected. Attendance, based on Rec & Park figures, has declined sharply with non-resident visitors down 70% vs. estimates and resident visitors down 36%. RPD’s strategy is to market Strybing Arboretum as the new Japanese Tea Garden.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP THIS HARMFUL FEE:
Attend the Budget Committee Hearing on Wed. April 6 (time TBA)
Call (by far most effective), e-mail and write potential swing-vote Supervisors to eliminate the fee:David Chiu – 554 -7450 david.chiu@sfgov.org Malia Cohen – 554- 7670 malia.cohen@sfgov.org Scott Weiner – 554- 6968 scott.weiner@sfgov.org
Join The Rally To Remove The Fee ! Saturday April 2nd between 1:00PM – 2:00PM at the Arboretum Main Gate
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
First it was all like this , then it was all like this (but that was a false alarm), then, just recently, it was all like this .
But then, T2, Judgement Day, Rise of the Tree Chipper Machines.
That was yesterday on McAllister. See?
The Chipperman Cometh:
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It was just like the end of that Fargo movie, except with trees.
At the end of the day, some of the 14 trees on death row were spared, some, like these, were not:
Maybe the unhealthy trees were destroyed and the healthy ones were left alone?
That’s one theory, anyway.
Courage.
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