No Amy: Week 3 --- Day 8/355

Walk: Garbage Out, Housework
Distance: A small way, wee yoga

So far Ciwt is keeping up pretty well with housework during these shelter in place times without Amy, her wonderful Tuesday cleaning girl.

Ciwt Weighs In --- 8/355

Walk: Presidio
Distance: 3.6 miles, Yoga

Ciwt is sort of at a loss for a topic today so she's going to stoop to being a nosy neighbor.  New buyers (?)have just had their little Victorian repainted. They must love it, and each to their own.  But, well......Ciwt thinks the whole side of the street has lost its flow and visual appeal because of the new clashing colors.  Classic example of doing it right is the picture postcard block with the famous San Francisco Painted Ladies.  (Thus spoke Ciwt....)

A Little Pink --- Day 8/354

Walk: No, Rain and waiting for grocery delivery
Distance: 0, Yoga

Ciwt was happy to see pink blossoms and new green shoots on her deck trees today.

Nice to Read Anyway --- Day 8/353

Walk: No (Rain and Sleepy)
Distance: 

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

So, along with many other people, Ciwt received an email copy of a letter from F. Scott Fizgerald while quarantined in the South of France during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the early 1900's. There were all the lyrical sentences, the boozey references, the ongoing frenemy spat with Hemingway. Ciwt has long loved Fitzgerald's writing and was thrilled to read a letter she'd never encountered before.

Unfortunately, the reason she'd never encountered it was that it was actually written

like now by Nick Farriella of the humor website McSweeney's.  But Ciwt is going to post it anyway, for nostalgia's sake.

Look Up Sunshine --- Day 8/351 & 352

Walk: 1. No  2. Presidio
Distance: 1. Pedal, Yoga   2. 3 miles, Pedal, Yoga

There's a young street artist a few blocks down who has a way of gladdening Ciwt's heart.

Walking and Learning --- Day 8/350

Walk: Presidio
Distance: 5 miles

Pershing Square, El Presidio de San Francisco

Pursuing her current interest in history, revived from college major days, Ciwt took a closer look today at Pershing Square on the Main Post of the Presidio.  The flagpole marks the site of General 'Black Jack' Pershing's house while he was briefly Commander of the Presidio in 1913-15.  It commemorates General Pershing's highly distinquished and much decorated career as well, sadly, as the house fire that claimed the lives of his wife and three of his children while Pershing was in Texas pursuing Mexican revolutionary 'Pancho Villa.'

The flagpole is  flanked on either side by cannon. The name of one, El Birgen de Barbaned, wraps around the barrel, and when Ciwt returned home she found it was forged in Lima, Peru, and, along with five other Spanish cannons in the Presidio, is among the oldest artillery in North America.

El Brigen de Barbaned

Insignia

dated 1693

Flower Power --- Days 8/348 & 349

Walks: Hood
Distance: Only a mile, yoga

Tulips are Here!!!

Luckily San Francisco, like Ciwt, considers fresh flowers a necessity.

Art Around the World --- Day 8/346

Walk: Hood
Distance: 2.5 miles

You Know Who*

Let Ciwt be maybe the 50th person who has made you aware of on line virtual tours of 2500 museums, world class and otherwise.

And for you opera and classical music buffs these opera and symphony companies are streaming works for you to enjoy from home.

Of course there's online yoga, workouts, brainiac stuff, you name it.  If we have to shelter in place, this seems a good era to be doing it in.

* In case not:

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as LEONARDO DA VINCI (Vinci,1452-Amboise,1519),
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, known as the Mona Lisa, c. 1503-19
Louvre Museum, Paris, France