Showing posts with label Chinatown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinatown. Show all posts
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Daily Life: Heading to SF
Well, my plan today is to go up to SF for lunch with my friends Pierre and Helen. Every now and then we like to get together and go to Chinatown for Dim Sum. Today is that day!
The weather is beautiful, it is crisp and cool and bathed in blue skies and sunlight, so it should be a nice day up in the city. I am sure a few tens of thousands of other people are waking up and thinking the same thing - so it might be a bit of a crowd. Fortunately, as an addicted people watcher, I enjoy the crowds, so I am looking forward to the people watching as well.
Breakfast was a simple omelet, coffee and grapefruit juice while listening to Annie Lennox's "Bare" and now Chris Isaak's greatest hits. I like the way this particular day has started to unfold.
I have the new Sony H50 camera, so I am going to take it for a test spin in San Francisco today. I'll see if I can post a few pictures from the iPhone while I am up there. I hope everyone out there is having a day as beautiful as this, regardless of where you are.
The weather is beautiful, it is crisp and cool and bathed in blue skies and sunlight, so it should be a nice day up in the city. I am sure a few tens of thousands of other people are waking up and thinking the same thing - so it might be a bit of a crowd. Fortunately, as an addicted people watcher, I enjoy the crowds, so I am looking forward to the people watching as well.
Breakfast was a simple omelet, coffee and grapefruit juice while listening to Annie Lennox's "Bare" and now Chris Isaak's greatest hits. I like the way this particular day has started to unfold.
I have the new Sony H50 camera, so I am going to take it for a test spin in San Francisco today. I'll see if I can post a few pictures from the iPhone while I am up there. I hope everyone out there is having a day as beautiful as this, regardless of where you are.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Daily Life: The Remainder of the Day
Once I managed the reset process I was able to salvage a large portion
of the afternoon. I managed to knock a couple of medium sized items
from my "to do" list and get some productive closure at the end of the
day.
of the afternoon. I managed to knock a couple of medium sized items
from my "to do" list and get some productive closure at the end of the
day.
I drove home and celebrated with a nap. Dinner was a simple cream of
mushroom soup. I spent a quiet evening watching television and idly
playing my guitar and writing. I am planning on going up to Chinatown
tomorrow for lunch, so I am going to curl up with my Repairman Jack
novel and drift into the sweet embrace of sleep.
Sent from my iPhone
Monday, November 17, 2008
About The Pictures Below
The weather in San Francisco was very good and the sun was bright, which made it a nearly perfect day for an amateur photographer. From top to bottom...
Turtle was very large bronze fountain, very detailed and life like, though a little too large for any use I might have for it. I loved the detail. (If you click on any picture you can see a larger version of it and see some of the detail.)
Three Pieces of Dim Sum - clockwise from top - a potsticker, a spicy pork dumpling, and shrimp on green pepper.
The Lion of November was another bronze foundation, once again, I love the detail. The sun was very cooperative.
The Frog Prince - detail of yet another bronze fountain.
Rod Waiting - my beloved HiTech V-Lights on a hardware floor. I was leaning against the wall waiting for my coffee at a Starbuck on Geary.
Pacific Sun - North Beach, San Francisco.
Iconic SF - the Transamerica tower from Chinatown.
Guardian - one of the Temple Lions at the gateway to Chinatown.
Ghosts of Chinatown - murals on a fire escape, central Chinatown.
Edifice - the sun on an anonymous highrise. I stopped at wondered at the web of thousands of lives that must spin around it.
Chain - detail of chain in parking lot fence.
Bronze Children - another statue on the street in Chinatown.
Beautiful Machine - detail of a Harley parked on the street in Chinatown, simply a beautiful machine.
Hope you enjoy them.
Turtle was very large bronze fountain, very detailed and life like, though a little too large for any use I might have for it. I loved the detail. (If you click on any picture you can see a larger version of it and see some of the detail.)
Three Pieces of Dim Sum - clockwise from top - a potsticker, a spicy pork dumpling, and shrimp on green pepper.
The Lion of November was another bronze foundation, once again, I love the detail. The sun was very cooperative.
The Frog Prince - detail of yet another bronze fountain.
Rod Waiting - my beloved HiTech V-Lights on a hardware floor. I was leaning against the wall waiting for my coffee at a Starbuck on Geary.
Pacific Sun - North Beach, San Francisco.
Iconic SF - the Transamerica tower from Chinatown.
Guardian - one of the Temple Lions at the gateway to Chinatown.
Ghosts of Chinatown - murals on a fire escape, central Chinatown.
Edifice - the sun on an anonymous highrise. I stopped at wondered at the web of thousands of lives that must spin around it.
Chain - detail of chain in parking lot fence.
Bronze Children - another statue on the street in Chinatown.
Beautiful Machine - detail of a Harley parked on the street in Chinatown, simply a beautiful machine.
Hope you enjoy them.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Simply Sunday Morning
I woke up this morning about six thirty AM or so. I had slept well during the night and I dreamed, but I only vaguely remember that the dream was about something mechanical. I don't recall any other details. I fired up my morning pot of coffee and opened the apartment up to let the morning breeze and morning sun it. It is another beautiful day here in San Jose.
I am heading up to Chinatown (San Francisco) in about an hour or so, maybe less. I am waiting for my friends Pierre and Helen to come up from south San Jose and then we will head for our favorite dim sum restaurant, the Four Seas. We'll enjoy lunch, wander Chinatown, and then maybe drift into some other part of San Francisco before winding our way homeward. It should be a great day.
I saw the new James Bond movie yesterday and I enjoyed it. So far Daniel Craig has been an excellent Bond. As a result of seeing the movie I have been listening to a CD I have that is all Bond theme songs - LOL - so that has been amusing me. My favorite is "For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton.
I have three working days before I go on vacation, so I am looking forward to that (the going on vacation part). This time next week I will be back in good old South Dakota. I will take one of my laptops with me, but internet connection is limited there. For me, going to South Dakota is very much like falling off the grid. I have AT&T for cell phone service and the Rosebud is All Tell, so I generally don't have cell service there. My folks have internet, but it is dial-up, so that is limited as well. I generally take a laptop for three reasons - to store and edit photos, to write, and to play the occassional game (I loaded the most recent copy of Hoyle's Casino on my PC).
When I am there I visit, I wander around, I read, I think, I write, I take pictures and I just generally slip into a very slow easy rhythm, which is often the whole purpose of going back to the ranch. Life is lived at a very different pace there. To be honest, it is too slow for me. I like urban living, I like the convenience of things, I like the diversity of things. Generally, after four or five days I start getting restless.
But, on the plus side, I do have some creative writing projects that have been hovering in the wings, waiting for me to get a chance to sit down and write, so I am looking forward to being able to spend some time doing that. Additionally, it is always good just to stop and reflect and the ranch lends itself to a relaxed reflection. I can already feel myself slipping into a more relaxed mode.
I had a long vacation in late July and early August, with my trip down to San Diego, and that was nice, but this feels far more relaxed. This is basically a purposeless vacation (yes, there are many things that I will do with old friends and family, but there is not a central organizing principle to it), so it will be a chance to just rest and relax.
Well, I feel like I rambled a bit this morning, but that is fine as well. Some days are meant for rambling. On that note, I will ramble up to San Francisco, then ramble to Chinatown, then the Four Seas, and then I will ramble through multiple plates of tasty dim sum.
I am heading up to Chinatown (San Francisco) in about an hour or so, maybe less. I am waiting for my friends Pierre and Helen to come up from south San Jose and then we will head for our favorite dim sum restaurant, the Four Seas. We'll enjoy lunch, wander Chinatown, and then maybe drift into some other part of San Francisco before winding our way homeward. It should be a great day.
I saw the new James Bond movie yesterday and I enjoyed it. So far Daniel Craig has been an excellent Bond. As a result of seeing the movie I have been listening to a CD I have that is all Bond theme songs - LOL - so that has been amusing me. My favorite is "For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton.
I have three working days before I go on vacation, so I am looking forward to that (the going on vacation part). This time next week I will be back in good old South Dakota. I will take one of my laptops with me, but internet connection is limited there. For me, going to South Dakota is very much like falling off the grid. I have AT&T for cell phone service and the Rosebud is All Tell, so I generally don't have cell service there. My folks have internet, but it is dial-up, so that is limited as well. I generally take a laptop for three reasons - to store and edit photos, to write, and to play the occassional game (I loaded the most recent copy of Hoyle's Casino on my PC).
When I am there I visit, I wander around, I read, I think, I write, I take pictures and I just generally slip into a very slow easy rhythm, which is often the whole purpose of going back to the ranch. Life is lived at a very different pace there. To be honest, it is too slow for me. I like urban living, I like the convenience of things, I like the diversity of things. Generally, after four or five days I start getting restless.
But, on the plus side, I do have some creative writing projects that have been hovering in the wings, waiting for me to get a chance to sit down and write, so I am looking forward to being able to spend some time doing that. Additionally, it is always good just to stop and reflect and the ranch lends itself to a relaxed reflection. I can already feel myself slipping into a more relaxed mode.
I had a long vacation in late July and early August, with my trip down to San Diego, and that was nice, but this feels far more relaxed. This is basically a purposeless vacation (yes, there are many things that I will do with old friends and family, but there is not a central organizing principle to it), so it will be a chance to just rest and relax.
Well, I feel like I rambled a bit this morning, but that is fine as well. Some days are meant for rambling. On that note, I will ramble up to San Francisco, then ramble to Chinatown, then the Four Seas, and then I will ramble through multiple plates of tasty dim sum.
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