Golden Gate Park, Part 2

I loved Golden Gate Park so much that I decided to return on the last day of my trip, as I had several hours of free time before my flight home. During this particular visit I explored Stowe Lake, which is situated towards the middle of the park.


The Roman Bridge.





I took several photos of this waterfall - it was such a peaceful spot!







At one point I was in a heavily shaded area of the park, and a small patch of sunlight was focused on this leaf, so it almost glowed in the darkness:



A pavillion overlooking the lake:



And that, my friends, wraps up the highlights from my trip to San Francisco!

Golden Gate Park (Part 1)

I was fortunate to have quite a bit of free time during my "business" trip, and decided to spend a large portion of that time at Golden Gate Park. The funny thing about the park, I thought, is that it is no where near the Golden Gate bridge. It's huge though, and very pretty. It contains a science museum, art museum, flower conservatory,botanical gardens, and many, many other things. In all my time walking around, I still only saw a fraction of the place! It was a great place to get some pictures.





One of my favorite places was the Japanese Tea Garden. If I had had more time, I would have brought a book and relaxed a bit!




An awesome bridge.


An authentic pagoda (and proof that I SO need a lens hood!).


The Buddha

Experimenting:



Near the museums was the Temple of Music. I kinda had a soft spot for this place!




Well, that's it for today. I have one more batch of photos to share, and then I'm done with S.F.!

Bay Cruise

During our trip we took a champaign and brunch cruise of the bay. This afforded some fantastic views of the city and its most famous landmarks.


The Bay Bridge


Going under...


The Birdman of Alcatraz. HA! I kill me.


While the downtown area was sunny and warm, the area around the Golden Gate was covered in a thick, wet mist. Kinda creepy!


It simply fades away...

Ok, completely unrelated to San Francisco: when I post these photos, the lwidest I can make my horizontal photos is 400px. Any wider and they get cut off by the right-hand column. Does anyone know how to adjust the widths of the two columns on this blog? I want to make the content part wider so I can make my photos larger!

Napa Valley

Last weekend I spent a few days in San Francisco for work, and as part of the trip, we took a day to visit beautiful Napa Valley. I'll admit it was a little different than I expected! However I did get some nice pictures of the scenery as we visited various wineries.


Cypress trees lining the driveway to Peju Winery.


I'm not sure what this tree was called, but I loved the colors of the leaves!


Flowers in the garden at Brix restaurant.


At the amazing Castello di Amorosa winery.


Also at the Castello. I loved all of the doors!


And of course, wine!

Stay tuned for further installments of my San Francisco trip photos!

I Exist.

I promise I haven't forgotten about this blog. Life is simply INSANE and I'm trying to catch up on a million things. I'm editing some photos from San Francisco and hope to post them soon!

Etsy Shop

Ok...so, I decided to make a little shop on Etsy.com. Etsy is a really cute website which reminds me of Ebay, except you aren't bidding on things, and everything is either homemade or vintage. I was going to create a site from scratch, and then realized I do not have enough coding skills to make that work. So Etsy it is! I'm starting very small, with customized birth and baptism announcements. I'll add some holiday and birthday cards sometime soon, hopefully. And maybe some photography. Or other art. We shall see. I've got to actually get some orders first, ha.

Here's the link: Pretty Fish Design

Oh, and I forgot: in case you are wondering about the names of the different designs, they are the names of some of my friends' kids!

Football Birthday Party Invitation

My little man will be turning one this month! How time flies...

Of course I had fun creating a birthday party invitation for him. I'm still waiting for the order to come in, so they have not been sent out yet, but here is the little design I came up with. I took the photo of Luke in his Browns warm-ups and football.



(obviously the info on the card isn't correct...)