Part Four - San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Santa Rosa
Sea Elephants near San Simeon, central California coast. The Sea Elephants are great entertainment. They snort, gurgle, joust and toss sand all over the place. I hope some day they can lay on the beach in peace.
Central California Coast south of Big Sur.
Staying with George and Anne in Monterrey.
Dinner with George, Anne and friends.
Community garden project by Green Monterey. Wall at left may become a green house. A small bit of neglected urban space and seeing new possibilities. Yay Megan!
Seventeen Mile Drive along the Monterey Peninsula. Its really beautiful. Wonderful wild ocean on one side, giant flash homes and golf courses on the other.
Ken Foster's place in Santa Cruz. Chai mulch.
Bruce and his permaculture projects near Santa Cruz. Frogs in barrels.
San Francisco. Sunday morning walk with Nancy. The greenery is not edible but shows a bit of effort can improve the street scape. Up the street its pretty barren. Richmond Neighborhood.
View of Richmond from the Art Institute in Golden Gate Park. Looks like the possibility of creating a long linear green space between the back sides of the houses, or at least some shared spaces among several houses.
Bikes in the Mission District. This was a really "humane" urban area. Lots of street life, restaurants, mixed use, walkable.
Ferry to Sausilito. Alcatraz close, downtown San Francisco in the distance. Quite spectacular.
Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. San Fran is a great city! There are so many land marks and people friendly places.
Famous zig zag Lombard Street, looking east to Telegraph Hill. Drivers like to go down this street just for fun. There is an endless stream of cars. Oakland Hills in the far distance.
Palace of Art and Culture. Yet another amazing land mark. A remnant of the 1906 [?] World's Fair. Undergoing renovation. An architecture historian would go nuts identifying all the styles.
Nancy on her way to work. I am off to Santa Rosa.
Above Muir Beach. I drove along Hwy 1, coastal Marin County up past Tomales Bay. Inland to Sebastopol and Santa Rosa.
The Earthquake Walk at Point Reyes National Seashore Interpretive Center. This is the San Andreas Fault. Right here. The display shows what this site looked like after the earth shifted 16 feet in the massive 1906 Earthquake. You can make out the cracks in the display foto. You can see the barn in both fotos, what i took and the display.
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This is Tomales Bay. View north to the open Pacific. The Bay is the San Andreas Fault heading out to sea. Its really an amazing geologic location, easy to identify on a map. Land on the far side is heading to Alaska.
Santa Rosa. Grace and Carl's place. Lots of permaculture in this very suburban location.
Grace and the partly underground 3000 gallon water tank. The city of Santa Rosa contributed $700 towards the cost of this water catchment system. Water is a big issue in California.
Harvest for the Hungry Garden and Food Bank at the Chirst Church United Methodist in Santa Rosa. Very nice garden and many volunteers that day. The garden is on church property.
View of the garden, it extends almost to the palm tree. Suburban houses on three sides. Church to the right.
Part 1 - Olympia, Bellingham, Everett, Chico
Part 2 - Sacramento, Davis, Nevada city
Part 3 - Yosemite, Visalia, Oxnard/Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo
Part 4 - San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Francisco, Santa Rosa
Part 5 - Santa Rosa, Return to Oregon, Bend