And bourgonvilla with bourgonvilla… 🙂 I love the vibrant colour of this plant. I’ll never forget when I came to Spain for the first time at age 9 and saw the abundance of what was in Denmark only a small, potted plant.
Okay, this time the landmark is so obscure you can’t even see it – the Bay Bridge. But the bourgonvilla is amazing…
This summer I was privilliged to visit a house in San Rafael with an amazing garden and an amazing view of the San Francisco Bay. Of course I brought my camera 🙂
One of my photo themes this summer during my stay in the US was to play with known landmarks being out of focus. Here’s an example. The background is Mount Tamalpais – the iconic landmark of Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate
Tiltle: Escape
This photo can presently be found at the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles as part of the jurored group exhibition, Urban Landscape.
“When I’m sixty four” from the series “In the eye of the beholder” will be part of the group exhibit The Art of Nostalgia at PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont, from August 13. to September 6., 2013. I’m so excited!
Aug. 13 – Sept. 6, 2013
I apologize for this picture to be out of the chronological sequence I stick to. I only just looked through the major part of our vacation pictures from this summer, and I couldn’t resist this one. I didn’t even have my Nikon yet. This is shot with a CoolPix.
The location is out towards Point Bonita Lighthouse, a sight than in the 10 years of family vacation we had yet to see. The model is as always my strawberry blond daughter, Ida. I love her serious look. The reason is not that she is following instructions. She was just totally pissed at me for not allowing her to throw her gum by the path.
I saved my own favorite of the San Rafael Mission for last. Notice the line of the three crosses.
Only 100 meters from this quiet, pink serenity The Farmers Market was going on as on every Thursday through the summer. All of 4’th Street was crowded with stalls selling goods, food and produce. People were talking, bands were playing, the local tap dance group was dancing – some contrast!
This reminds me so much of my summer vacations in Spain, but we are still in San Rafael, CA.
Quote from Wikipedia:
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia (“sub-mission”) of the Mission San Francisco de AsÃs as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California’s first sanitarium.The weather was much better in the North Bay than in San Francisco, and helped the ill to get better. It was never intended to be a stand-alone mission, but nevertheless grew and was granted full mission status on October 19, 1822.
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