They tried to warn us about the fog, but only some of us listened. The rest of us went down the waterfront only to be confronted with this:
You see, it should look more like this, from 2007. This year’s fireworks got above the fog, but only once in a while. It’s almost as if the Bay Area should celebrate Anti-Fourth of July instead.
See you (through the fog) next year!
When they’re not eating flowers, the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill like to fly around San Francisco in big flocks.
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Wild parrots above the KPIX-TV building on Battery Street and also near 202 Green Street, where Philo T. Farnsworth invented television a while back.
Some people are afraid of these red masked conures, but others would like them to become the state bird of California instead of the Valley Quail. We have some quail in San Francisco as well, but not all that many.
Will the Parrot cell phone-accessory company be able to change our state bird from quail to parrot?
Only Time Will Tell.
San Francisco’s famous wild parrots have spread out a bit lately, so they’re easier to spot these days.
Watch them eating springtime blossoms (cherry? plum?). You can listen to them also. And of course, you can read all about them.
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Mmmmm…, flowers.
Some people think of Sausalito as a Portuguese fishing village and that’s kind of credible.
This atypical view of San Francisico with Sausalito in the background makes S.F. look a little like a village as well - evidence of Manhattanization is to the left, so all you see is basically the same as what you would have seen in the 1930’s.
Some people would like to construct tall buildings on the waterfront, but there’ll be a lot of fighting before that happens.
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