Walk: Presidio
Distance: 3 miles
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| Apes leaving the Golden Gate Bridge |
So the rental bikers, dog walkers, runners, strollers and lopers like Ciwt were startled by their fellow Crissy Field promenaders today. To say the least! Bikers nearly fell over, some had to dismount from their bikes to be safe, dogs barked like mad, runners gave the horses a very wide berth.
San Franciscans are used to unusual sites on their streets, but apes on horses was (to Ciwt's knowledge) a first. Clearly the apes can saddle and ride horses, but it looked like they can't write. Or at least didn't bother to this afternoon so didn't carry or wear any identification.*
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| Free Apes Passing in front of Alcatraz along Crissy Field Beach |
* According to SF Gate, the best guess is the apes were part of a publicity stunt for a new movie, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Or maybe they were just enjoying a timelessly beautiful site.
Walk/Lope: Patagonia, Athleta, Sports Basement
Distance: 5.3 miles
Time for some new hiking clothes and shoes. Time for going place to place to place to find and try them on. Time to come home and crash from the effort.
Walk (Ciwt is mostly loping these days): Hood, Retail
Distances: 4 miles, 1 mile
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A rufous-crested coquette seeks out nectar from porterweed, photographed in Panama. # Juan Carlos Vindas / Getty |
Walk: Hood
Distance: 5 miles
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| Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, wood, metal, glass, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls and water |
A friend takes in Yayoi Kasuma's sparkling and infinite universe of love at LA's Broad Museum today.
Walks: Hood
Distances: 3.5 & 4.2 mi
Ciwt's life has been pretty nuts and bolts these last couple of days. So she's delighted to see in The Atlantic Photos of the Week that all sorts of important things were happeing all over the place.
Goslings took some of their first steps in Hamburg, Germany:
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| Michael Probst/AP |
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| Mert Alper Dervis / Anadolu / Getty |
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| Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu / Getty |
Walk: Union Square Dentist
Distance: 5.5 miles
Or at least that was the step by step route to the new tooth Ciwt had implanted yesterday. Luckily the anesthesia took the edge off initialing pages and pages of possible life threatening complications and paying off the 'Treatment Plan' in full, up front.
PS - It's way in the back. She can't really see it, but knows it's there when she looks at her check book..
Walk: Hood
Distance: 4.5
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So, when Ciwt was in Palm Springs, the sky was never not clear and blue, or the mountains blocked by haze. Blades of perfectly green grass were mowed several times a day so they were always even with each other. There were extra, open pickleball courts for all the snappily dressed players. Everyone smiled, waved, said "Another perfect day in Paradise!" as they golf carted by. Even the plane ride from San Francisco had been ripple free.
The flight back was extremely turbulent from takeoff to landing. The skies were thick with mid grey clouds which reached almost to the ground. As her plane descended, there were ripples of water on the windows by her seat. And, sure enough, there was 'unseasonable' rain and cold on the ground. People whisked by nearly knocking each other over at the airport, the highway to the city was frustrating to navigate, homeless people began appearing on the sidewalks. The complications of San Francisco city life began emerging..
And, happily, Ciwt began to feel the particular palpable energy of this fascinating, difficult, challenging, ever evolving, embarrassment of riches city that holds her heart.
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