So obviously I haven’t had any time to post recently because we’ve been so busy with the move and all. We finally made it into Missouri early this morning (3:30 am) after a grueling day of panic and travel. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to sell everything we wanted to before the big move but that’s the beauty of Craigslist. Put an ad up, put your stuff out on the curb, and within an hour, it’s gone. Moving for lazy people at it’s finest!
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So many variables, so little time… It’s been a crazy week around here. Our plans keep changing for one reason or another but I’ll just be glad when it’s all over. One more week and we’ll be gone.

It’s a beautiful day here in SF and I haven’t even  been outside.  I’m going to miss this place a lot once we leave but there are quite a few things I won’t miss:

1. There’s trash everywhere. Coming from Texas, it was heartbreaking to see such a beautiful place so polluted.  They don’t put up with that crap in Texas. You go to jail if you get caught littering. But in SF, they “clean” the streets once a week so everyone figures that it’s okay to litter. It makes me sad…

2. Okay, I realize assholes are everywhere but they seem to flock to this city. I’m not saying everyone here is rude, because they’re not, but these buttheads take the cake. People will intentionally ignore you and then get in your way and stay there. I could give about a thousand examples but I’ll just leave it at that.

3. Section 8 housing at the beach: Why exactly do the people who are living off the rest of us get the prime real estate?

And now for some things that I will miss:

1. Being a short walk from the Pacific Ocean. I can’t say enough about living steps away from the beach. Well, who wouldn’t like that?

2. There are community gardens and parks everywhere. Even in the worst neighborhoods, you can find the most beautiful scenery.

3. Some really great restaurants like The Citrus Club, Park Chow, Dolly’s, and Sushi Zen. There are quite a few good restaurants here but you have to know where they are. They’re hidden amongst all the bad ones. And there are a lot of bad ones, they’re practically on every street corner. So do your homework first, boys and girls, before heading out to find a good restaurant in SF.

Anyway, at this point I’m blabbing. I need to get back to packing. Crap…

The withdrawal is killing me - I haven’t had the chance to post, like, at all over the past couple of days. We’ve been hella busy getting ready to leave the city. We’re sad to be leaving SF but we know it’s for the better. I managed to get a walk in to Ocean Beach yesterday at sunset and got a couple shots of the snowy plovers on the water’s edge. They look like little roadrunners on crack running along the water’s edge.

Oh, and if anyone is paying attention, I’ll get some shots of Northern Cali up here if it’s the last thing I do. I swear, where does time go?

strybing arboretum, golden gate park

found in the outer sunset on taraval

Before we moved to San Francisco, my husband and I lived further south along the peninsula. Whenever we got the chance, we would make our way up to the city for the day just to do some exploring. Being from South Texas, we saw San Francisco as the coolest place on Earth. There are huge trees everywhere, steep hills with houses on their sides, and beautiful beaches.

I don’t know how many of you have been to South Texas but the trees are anything but huge (puny if you ask me), people don’t put their houses on the sides of cliffs because they value their lives, and the beaches in Texas are disgusting (you can see giant oil rigs from shore, for God’s sake).

That being said, I thought I’d share some old shots of the city that I took before we lived here. I had recently acquired my first digital 2 MP Canon point-and-shoot when I took these so they’re not the best quality but I think I managed to get a couple of good shots.
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