May 17, a week ago,  Madame Le Chef and I drove out to Ocean Beach. The sky over the ocean was quite dramatic.

Down on the beach there was some impermanent art.

At first we walked on the sidewalk that runs between the beach and The Great Highway (actually just an okay highway).

But then we decided to take advantage of the fact that the City had closed the aforesaid highway to cars and trucks. It was fun to walk down the middle of the street, sharing it with bikes and skaters.

Before we left we admired the sky and the ocean a little more.

San Francisco Places and Things

These were gathered recently.

A view.

Social Distancing.

A Sea Lion.

In a garden.

On a street.

By the Ocean.

By the Stadium.

Couture.

Box Office

San Francisco During the Shutdown

The "Seniors" line at Costco, at 7:56 AM on March 26, 2020.

Message in our neighborhood the same day.

Instructions the same day on our hill.

The line at Good Life Grocery on March 29 at 4:30 PM.

A boarded up Michelin One Star restaurant on April 5, 2020.

The all ages line at Costco on April 16, 2020.

San Francisco Winter 2020

Street art.

Art art.

Sights.

Sunday sights.

Sundown sights.

Miss Peggy Lee

This is a wonderful bit of footage from 1950. Peggy Lee first heard the song in the 1940s. It was a hit on "Race Records" by a blues singer named Lil Green. In the way of such things Miss Lee "borrowed" it and had a hit with Benny Goodman.  It became part of her repertoire. I love the way she sings, "get out of here". The guitarist she keeps rolling her eyes at is her first husband, Dave Barbour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uTcw_A80Bo

YouTube stuck some ads at the head but you can click and get rid of them,

The Chase Center

On Thanksgiving Day, Madame Le Chef and I, wanting to take a walk, went to the nearby neighborhood of Mission Bay and visited The Chase Center, which is the home arena of the Golden State Warriors. There was no game so all the buildings were closed but it was interesting to walk around.

As I have mentions in several posts, none of these buildings existed 20 years ago. It was an area of underutilized  train yards. The buildings have been built over the last two decades and the Chase Center only opened this year.

Although the Warriors were not around, their icons were.

Mission Bay is home to one of the campuses of UCSF, the medical school of the University of California. We happened to watch a helicopter taking taking off from the roof of a nearby hospital.

South Dakota Part 2

When we were stopped in the middle of the buffalo herd I took a short video with my iPhone.