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!
Quote from Wikipedia:
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia (“sub-mission”) of the Mission San Francisco de Asís 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.
What do shadows tell us of the objects that cast them? Can the shadow sometimes be a clearer image than the original? Is there always an original or sometimes just the shadow…
This picture is the first in a series of seven pictures of the mission San Rafael in the town of the same name in Marin County. There is a magic in the pink glow at sundown that I have tried to capture. The mission is set apart from the modern town surrounding it by its design and atmosphere.
I couldn’t resist posting one more picture from Fairfax Scoop with the double layer of experience the reflection gives.
Fairfax is a small community in Marin County, north of the Golden Gate bridge. Turning off the 101 you drive through San Rafael and San Anselmo to get to Fairfax. It is a bit off the beaten track in a county with some of the highest real estate prices in the US. There is a lot of old-timer hippie feel about the place, and it is my impression that the people living here have a stronger sense of community and less of a need to show off income than in several of the other little towns.
On my vacation I brought my brand new camera to take pictures during my lasst visit this time around. First I found a tree of books and a tree of leaves.
I live in Copenhagen, Denmark, but Marin – just north of the Golden Gate Bridge – is a very special place of mine. That’s why I have chosen a picture of the Golden Gate to open this blog. I love the symbolic way the bridge spans into the mist. We know we’re going somewhere though we can’t see the goal.
This picture as well as the next are from before I got the Nikon. They are shot with a small Sony digital camera.
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