Break in the clouds, City Hall (Monday)

Now is not the time to stop my massage

Terra Cotta on the Corner

(Also Old Town San Mateo)

Odd Fellows, Nice Buildings

(In Old Town San Mateo)

Industrial Space Thai

Maker Faire Bay Area is fun

Because: of course it is!  Everyone should get to enjoy going to science fairs that overflow an event center and have sculptures that walk or blast fire.  I'm lucky to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where both adults AND their children joyfully celebrate science.

Also: I WAS GIVEN NASA STICKERS.  *dancing*  My work laptop has just been improved many many times over!

There are some fun things to highlight:

• My Maker Faire favorite exhibitors,Flaming Lotus Girls (flaminglotus.com) had machines that warmed me with fire (makerfaire.com).
• The brilliantly lit, giant centipede, Myriapoda by To Be Continued... (makerfaire.com) glowed brightly in the intentionally dark hall.
• There was this amazing Rearing Horse by Barry Crawford (makerfaire.com) that towered above us.
• the giant cardboard dinosaur up top was made by EPC-M.ZONE (makerfaire.com). If you follow the link, you can watch a time-lapse of the dino being made.

There was also a piece that is what any Tardis of mine would likely look like, called Axis Mundi, which I'll link to below:

Axis Mundi - Thirty Circles

Axis Mundi is a geometric shrine in the form of a 6-sided gazebo, made entirely of LED lit, laser cut panels. Emerging from the inside of the structure sits a 3ft tall kaleidoscope. Within the mirrors of the kaleidoscope is an ever changing , infinitely reflected globe of organic growth, cosmic convergence, and fractal patterns.

Silicon Geographical Depression

On the ridge

Far from town

Ceiling abstract 5

I don't really enjoy photo editing software, but photo abstraction software is kind of fun.  :)

Ceiling abstract 3

Ceiling abstract 1

Softly reflective

I appreciate the design of our local BART stations.

Looking west, looking east

The Presidio was packed today, despite the wind and fog (Happy Mothers' Day!), and so wasn't the best place to have a peaceful walk; but I had a refreshing walk, and I'll take it.

I'm still not accustomed to the new eastern part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (at bottom).  I don't have close photos of it, even though it has been open since 2013; the remains of the bridge it replaced remained into 2018, and so complete views haven't been clear until recently. 

My day in four colors

Three of these are in my own, foggy neighborhood today. 

(Top row: pink rhododendron and a red "pincushion" protea (maybe Leucospermum cordifolium);
bottom row: a violet iris and a yellow California flannel bush (likely Fremontodendron californicum).) 

The Scent of Lilacs

I am surprised and delighted that the German language has a special word for the scent of lilacs.

Der Fliederduft.

I was trying to explain (in German) what I most enjoy about spring, and apparently, I am not alone in this! 

How sweet.  And unexpected.

Jamie Bardsley (at SFMCD)

I am completely charmed by Jamie Bardsley's installation as the Museum of Craft and Design. Here is a link to her site, to see her engaging work, which involves complex assemblies created from relatively simple, elegant components:

Jamie Bardsley

Jamie Bardsley is a ceramic installation artist.

Oxidation Red

Third Street Character

I remember Tuesday