Posts Tagged ‘tree’
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Look at this huge Christmas Tree taking up all the space at a bar on Lombard Street’s Motel Row.
It’s been covered over with Valentine’s day-related tchochkes, gewgaws, knickknacks, baubles, and lagniappes.
See? (Customers’ and employees’ faces darkened out of respect.)
Happy Valentines!
Tags: bar, christmas, cow hollow, days in, holiday, lombard, lombard street, love, marina, romance, saint, sitrict, st., street, tree, valentines
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Well it’s late January in San Francisco so it’s time for our sidewalk plum trees to begin blossoming. Yeah, they look a lot like cherry trees and that causes people around town to start talking about how global warming / climate change is making the cherry trees of April wake up three months early or something.
You can double-check with the Friends of the Urban Forest if you want, but I’ll tell you, those flashes of pink you see brightening up the otherwise-dreary Streets of San Francsico these days are early-rising Prunus blireiana, aka Flowering Plum trees, or something similar.
Be patient and you’ll be rewarded with real cherry trees in March – check out the sked at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park.
If this January blossom is cherry, I’ll eat my hat:
This will be the scene in the Financh in a couple of months – our wild parrots love all kinds of prunus blossoms of course.
Take heart, Spring is just around the corner…
Tags: 2010, april, balmy, bloom, blossom, cherry, climate change, day, February, Festival, global warming, golden gate park, ground, groundhog, hanami, hog, january, Japanese, japantown, march, plum, post, sakura, San Francisco, spring, street, tree, warm
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Everybody knows the connection between a pair of tennis shoes suspended on telephone wires overhead and drug sales by now, but what do you make of this mountain bike tire perched high above the Great Parking Lot of Civic Center (nee the 100 block of Fulton) betwixt the Asian Art Museum and our Main Library?
My guess is that it means “stolen bikes and parts are sold here.”
To support my theory I’ll add that, in actuality, stolen bikes and parts are sold here.
Buying a stolen bike for $20 on the Streets of San Francisco remains the cheapest way to replace the bike that just got stolen from you, in’nt?
I can’t recommend that course of action, but I do heartily endorse the Marin Bikes Outlet in SoMA and their policy of selling new bikes for $200-something. Check it out the next time your bike gets stolen.
Happy riding!
Tags: 7th folsom, bicycle, bike, civic center, cyclists, fulton, lock, marin bikes, mountain, outlet, road, sale, soma, steal, stolen, tire, tree
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Our 2007 Civic Center Christmas / Holiday tree had a big Star of Bethlehem on top all the way through the season.
Our 2008 tree had a star that came and went.
And now, our 2009 tree has no star at all. Oh well. Looks a little plain now, huh?
Maybe they’re still working on it. Click to expand
Speaking of plain, take note of the Great Gravel Plain of Civic Center – it’s what we get this year instead of grass or a Victory Garden the way we had last year.
Oh well.
If you like holiday trees, head to City Hall, where Rita Moreno (ask about her Grammy, Oscar, Emmy,and Tony) will star at the Rainbow World Fund Tree of Hope 2009 lighting celebration.
“Come to the tree lighting celebrationat City Hall with Mayor Gavin Newsom. Join us as we gather wishes and hopes for the future of our global community and give them wings. The event takes place on the rotunda inside San Francisco City Hall and features a concert by the San Francisco Boys Chous, Veronica Klaus and more. Free beverages and light refreshments.
- 5:30 pm – Concert by the San Francisco Boys Chorus
- 6:00 pm – Tree lighting celebration – Stuart Milk, nephew of Harvey Milk, will deliver a message of hope Presentations by actresses Rita Moreno, Sharon Gless and Yasumasa Nagamine, the Consul General of Japan.
- 6:30 pm – Veronica Klaus will perform at a party to follow till 8:00 pm.
Send a wish to the Rainbow World Fund and they’ll turn it into an origami crane which they’ll add to the tree.
See you there.
Tags: 2007, 2008, 2009, bethlehem, christmas, City Hall, civic center, giant, government, Harvey Milk, holidays, lighting, rainbow world fund, rita moreno, San Francisco, Sharon Gless, star, Stuart Milk, tree, Tree of Hope, Yasumasa Nagamine
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
OMG, they’re back! Don’t go into Cute Overload when you see the pets of the San Francisco SPCA Holiday Windows program at the corner of Stockton and O’Farrell.
Folks were still setting up a few days back, but now would be a good time to check things out. And don’t miss the Union Square tree lighting at Nov. 27, 2009, 6:00 PM. Check the photos.
As seen on Saturday:
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Kitties and puppies, AFAICS
All the deets:
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HOLIDAY WINDOWS AT MACY’S UNION SQUARE
Nov. 20, 2009 to Jan. 3, 2010
Macy’s will once again partner with San Francisco’s Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) to give homeless cats and dogs a second chance to find warm and loving homes. Holiday shoppers can glimpse some of San Francisco’s cutest animals, along with Santa himself, in Macy’s Stockton and O’Farrell Street windows. This year’s windows are inspired by Macy’s Believe campaign, which asks children to deposit their stamped letters to Santa in official Santa’s mailboxes in our stores. Animals up for adoption will frolic in front of a variety of doorsteps indicative of classic architecture, from colonial to cottage, modern to brownstone and log cabin to deco. Santa letters will arrive at Santa’s mailroom, where the jolly man himself will be checking his list to find out which dogs and cats have been naughty or nice. SPCA representatives will be on site while the pets are on display to answer questions from potential adopters.
20TH ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING CELEBRATES THE YOUNG PATIENTS OF UCSF CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Nov. 27, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
Macy’s Great Tree in Union Square, Macy’s gift to the city and most recognized Christmas tree will be officially lit in Union Square. A 85-foot Shasta White Fir from the Carlton Tree Farm in Mount Shasta will be adorned with thousands of twinkling lights and 1,500 red and gold ornaments. For the seventh year, Macy’s has made UCSF Children’s Hospital the beneficiary of its annual tree lighting. For $5, anyone can sponsor a light bulb to illuminate the tree; all proceeds go directly to the UCSF Children’s Hospital’s palliative care program, which supports families whose children have life-threatening illnesses. There will be musical performances and, of course, Santa Claus will lead thousands of holiday revelers in a spirited countdown before throwing the switch to light the tree.
See you there!
Tags: adpopt, california, cat, cats, dog, dogs, holiday, holiday windows, intersection, kitten, lighting, macy's macys, puppies, puppy, San Francisco, shiopping, snimals, spca, stockton, street, tree, union square, windows
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I says, “Don’t eat that little blue pill, squirrelly!” But s/he went up a tree and away from view with a quickness.
What was in the capsule and whether squirrelly had no reaction, some reaction with humourous antics, or a massive OD resulting in death – that info is lost to History.
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People, try not to drop too many doses when you’re popping your pills at Golden Gate Park’s Strybing Arboretum, mkay?
Tags: arboretum, Blue, capsule, drugs, golden gate park, light, O.D., pill, reaction, San Francisco, sqirel, sqirell, squirrel, strybing, tree
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
This is not how you want to find your ride (a Subaru Forester believe it or not - chop chop! That’s what foresters do, right, chop down trees?) after you park right next to a giant aging Blue Gum Eucalyptus tree in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.
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Ben Davis-wearing members of Laborer’s local 261 + giant Swedish buzz saws = problem quickly solved.
Excepting for Caroline’s Subie, that is.
The City crew failed to leave a note, but I think the driver will figure things out for herself after seeing the flat tires and all the sawdust.
Just another foggy day in Paradise…
Tags: 2009, 22, 5 north, aging, ashbury, branch, chipper, crash, dept., district, dpw, Eucalyptus, fell, forester, gaia, goldn gate park, haight, insurance, july, limb, NOPA, old, panhandle, police, police department, San Francisco, SFPD, street, subaru, traffic, tree
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
As everybody knows, Market Street is straight until it hits the Castro. See for yourself as you follow it from the Ferry Building (once the second-highest building in town) all the way to the Giant Gay Pride Flag of the Castro District, the biggest in the world they say.
This is almost the view you get from the Twin Peaks Overlook up on Christmas Tree Road – the second highest point in San Francisco:
And click below for a closer look. Can you see the historic street cars and the bike riders?
Sure you can. Just scroll around.
Tags: big, biggest, castro, christmas, district, financial, flag, Gay, market, overlook, photo, pride, rainbow, road, San Francisco, street, tree, twin peaks, view
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
This hungry juvenile hawk (red-tailed? red-shouldered? red-something anyway) perched on a Eucalyptus tree in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle has stopped screeching for its parents’ food and started hunting on its own.
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If only it knew about Craig Newmark’s nearby backyard, a veritable smorgasbord of delicious boids (a smorgasbird, if you will) that’s just up the hill. Here’s a recent menu du jour.
Happy hunting, little raptor.
Tags: baby, birds, cole valley, Craig, craigslist, Eucalyptus, fell, golden gate park, haight Ashbury, hawk, hunting, juvenile, newmark, oak, panhanlde, raptor, red, red shouldered, red-tailed, San Francisco, smorgasbird, street, teenager, tree
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