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Well, As Expected, the $7 Fee at the Strybing Arboretum is Going to Become...
TweetBoy there’s a lot of overhead involved with the whole process of charging people $7 to walk through the former Strybing Arboretum, it sure looks like. Anyway, here’s a little background on how...
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Midnight Sparring, Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park
TweetJumping ropes and boxing gloves? Looks like some people have been night exercising: Click to expand
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A Riot of Color in Foggy, Foggy Golden Gate Park: It’s August in the Dahlia...
TweetAs it looks this season: All the deets: August 17th & 18th, 2013, Dahlia Society of California, County Fair Building/Golden Gate Park, 9th & Lincoln Avenues, San Francisco But whatever you...
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The SFMTA Gods Must Be Crazy – Absurd Painted Lines on JFK Drive Confuse...
TweetLet’s see, how can I phrase this? How about: “New JFK bike lanes are bad for everyone“ Or this, whichever. Now, on to new bidness. Check out these handicapped parking spaces on JFK Drive outbound...
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The SF Recreation and Park Department Picks a Cold December Day to Confiscate...
TweetI’ll tell you, it’s just 59 degrees up near the ceiling of my living room this chilly AM, but I think I’m getting used to our current cold snap. People who might feel differently would be those...
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Homeless People Have Already Moved In at the 8 Octavia Construction Site
TweetThey’ve been here for a while. The construction crew is cool with it, but this arrangement can’t last much longer: Click to expand Here’s the spiel for this brand new building, and they mention...
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The Best Thing Ever: 2014-2015 American Conservatory Theater to Feature “Mr....
TweetSan Francisco’s Premier Non-Profit Theatre Company announced their 2014-2015 season a while back, but I missed it. So I’m just finding out about the best idea ever for a play. Presenting “Mr....
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Coyote Warnings are Out Again in Golden Gate Park – At the Conservatory and...
TweetI’m not sure when CW Nevius SF Coyote Hysteria hit its peak – I think it was a year or two after he moved to town, so it must have been a year or two ago. Here’s a sample, where the SF newcomer...
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What Does RPD Burn in Golden Gate Park? – Is All This Smoke From Wood,...
TweetIn my thoughts I have seen, Rings of smoke through the trees, but IRL I seen RPD making mad smoke by burning stuff in a wooded area east of the Conservatory of Flowers: From this chimney: See? So,...
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Official UBER Log-In Photo Depicts Illegal Driving on Music Concourse Drive...
TweetYou know, just saying. What’s this, a Photoshopped California Academy of Sciences being used on an Uber website? I think so. Well, the car’s pointing in the wrong direction, that’s all. Hey, does...
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Oh, Rec and Park Raises Prices 14% at Japanese Tea Garden, Coit Tower,...
TweetPrice for admission at all these places was $7 in 2014, but now in 2015 it’s $8? News to me. I suppose Rec & Park doesn’t make a big deal about raising prices, or maybe they did and I just...
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Look Where Facebook Buses are “Staging” Now – On JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park
TweetThe first I’ve seen this – parked in Tour Bus Only near the Conservatory of Flowers: I don’t know where Zuck is supposed to park his interstate buses, but it’s not here…
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Stained Glass: Our Conservatory of Flowers by Day, Our Conservatory of...
TweetPurple orange red green: Butterflies and Blooms runs through June 30th, 2017.
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The Fish of Our Conservatory of Flowers: From Piranha to Goldfish, More or Less
TweetFrom back in the day, in the aughts, at our Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, under the giant lily pads: They were sort of big, kind of like piranha. And from 2017: Japanese carp, koi.
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Frisco Clue: Plum Candlestick Conservatory
TweetIt all adds up! Do you have any suggestions, Gentle Reader?
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Weed Party in Golden Gate Park – Visitors Scratch a Entry Off Their Bucket...
TweetAs seen quite near Conservatory and JFK:
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It’s 56 Degrees, Swirling Fog, So Let’s Party in Golden Gate Park at...
TweetThe good news is that the 94117 has warmed up considerably since the photos from this morning, see below, were taken. The bad news is that the winds will come back soon. Anyway, this event is...
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The Bioblitz has Begun: “City Nature Challenge” Ends Monday – Photograph and...
Here ya go: “The City Nature Challenge is an international event where people find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe: a bioblitz-style competition where metro areas are in a...
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DAHLIAS, DAHLIAS, DAHLIAS! – Frisco’s Official Flower is on Display Now in...
Here they are: Check out the flowery language used to make the dahlia San Francisco’s official flower: “The dahlia partakes essentially of the character of our beloved city, in birth, breeding, and...
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