Standing on the rocky coast of Northern California looking out into the Pacific Ocean seeing a rock formation with a door like archway.

Stunday Sunday. Sonoma Coast State Park snapped 11.14.21
#seethebeautyaroundyou #eastcoastkin #sonomacoaststatepark #bodegabayca

This is a quote from a book by Larry Mitchell called The Faggots and their Friends in-between revolutions published in 1977. "It is categories in the mind and guns in their hands which keep us enslaved"

I have #graditude for all the people who came before me straining against bonds of oppression.
#larrymitchell #thefaggotsandtheirfriendsinbetweenrevolutions

Wow! Superb snap.

Whole zested lemon on black granite counter

Highlight
snapped 2.22.17
#seethebeautyaroundyou
#twinpeaksneighborhood
#sanfrancisco
#smooth
#blueskyartshow

Native wildflowers in the foreground with jagged rocks in the middle with San Francisco Bay behind and the Eastbay Hills in the background.

Snapped 6.11.21 while living in SF.
#seethebeautyaroundyou
#oysterpointmarina
#southsanfrancisco
#summerdaze
#blueskyartshow

Looking through a metal grate door down a narrow alley between houses in San Francisco.

Snapped 11.24.17 looking down a #narrow alley in SF.
#BlueSkyArtShow #SanFrancisco
#seethebeautyaroundyou

Pear tree with voluminous blooms.

Walking Maggie when I was drawn to this pregnant pear singing.

#seethebeautyaroundyou #norfolkva

Brick arch in foreground looking out onto marshy shore and Lafayette River.

Hermitage Museum arch looking out onto the Lafayette River snapped 1.14.24
#BlueSkyArtShow #Arch #seethebeautyaroundyou #norfolkva

Close up view of shatter glass on asphalt parking lot with sun shining on glass shards.

Sunshine on parking lot glass. Snapped 7.21.17 in Fremont, CA.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sunshine #seethebeautyaroundyou #fremontca

Daffodils nodding in the sunlight against a backdrop of a tree.

Early spring sight with happy daffodils sunning in repose.

#seethebeautyaroundyou
#spring #daffodils #norfolkva

Ruined building with ornate widow frame looking up into blue sky with clouds.

Walking to the zoo when I stumbled upon this stunning ruin. Snapped 11.21.2023 in San Jose, Costa Rica.

#Window
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Seethebeautyaroundyou #sanjosecostarica

Ocean view from beach with so much pollen in water it appears to be yellow.

No filters here, what you see is pollen in the Chesapeake Bay. Snapped at Ocean View Beach on 3.31.24.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Spring #ChesapeakeBay #NorfolkVA #seethebeautyaroundyou

Cassette tapes abandoned on a sidewalk in San Francisco, CA

Somebody's collection #abandoned on a SF sidewalk. Snapped 5.29.21

#BlueSkyArtShow #media #seethebeautyaroundyou #sanfranciscoca

View from Bay Bridge in SF looking through high rise buildings at the Sutro Tower peeking out above the fog.

@sutrotower.bsky.social one of my favorite snaps of the Sutro Tower above Karl- coming back from Oakland across the Bay Bridge on 10.27.2019:

Atop a hill surrounded by yellow wildflowers looking over bushes to a lake with cypress trees in the background.

All this snow has me nostalgic for this time on the opposite coast. Lake Merced Park snapped 2.12.2022

Beautiful

Ice imprint on stainless steel appears like a topographical map

Ice imprint made by plastic bag on stainless steel snapped 6.17.18

#Monochrome #BlueSkyArtShow
#seethebeautyaroundyou

Bright yellow flower surrounded by fuzzy green leaves

This tiny beauty is Coastal Sand Verbena snapped 6.27.21.
#seethebeautyaroundyou #gualalapoinyregionalpark #gualalaca

Little black Cormorants lined up on a large dead branch over hanging Lake Merced in San Francisco, CA.

Cormorant parade on Lake Merced. Snapped 6.25.22.

#seethebeautyaroundyou #cormorants #lakemerced #sanfranciscoca

Excellent. Thank you!

Is this for sale?

Buildings topped by blue sky with a few clouds in car mirror

SOMA district snapped 6.17.18.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Reflections #seethebeautyaroundyou #sanfranciscoca

Wavy pattern in sand dunes in foreground with sparse weedy plants in mid ground finishing with mountains in background. The White Sands National Park sand in NM is white due to the sand being made from gypsum.

The world's largest gypsum dune field, White Sands National Park. Snapped 11.17.22

#seethebeautyaroundyou #whitesandsnationalpark #newmexico

Sunset view over ocean with trees in the foreground and backlit clouds in the distance. Photo taken in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.

View from Ronny's Place in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. Snapped 11.23.2023.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Light #Landscape #ManuelAntonio #costarica #seethebeautyaroundyou

View of San Francisco from the 11th floor of Carillon Tower apartments facing SW. Cityscape at dusk with Sutro Tower in distance.

View from My previous place on Gough St. in SF. Snapped 10.27.2022.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Light #Cityscape #seethebeautyaroundyou #sanfranciscoca

What's inside?

Sutro Baths History - Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

If you look at the left middle quadrant of this photo you will see some ruins. Those are what is left of the Sutro Baths. Must have been amazing!
www.nps.gov/goga/learn/h...

The quiet on these nights is also wonderful.

HAA! White sauce indeed. We always make visiting friends try it without telling them what it is. Some folks like it.

Landscape view of winding trail along Pacific Ocean with cypress trees in middle distance and mountains in the background.

Lands End trail snapped 2.24.2019.
#seethebeautyaroundyou
#sanfranciscoca
#scape