Remember Tamar?

I always go to her Blog and Tumblr

When I need my eye refreshed.

When I need time for a little dreaminess.

For softer ways of seeing the world.

For a little sustenance.

 (Tamar; NestPrettyThings Tumblr)

To switch up my own lens, for another's........Hope you like!

Summer Vacation, Fashion

I'm going to take a break from the blog for awhile.  But I'm going to line up some nice relaxing and pretty images for the final weeks of summer vacation.  Hope you like them!

Here's my fantasy of how an August day will be for me this year.

  It's o.k. if it's a holiday in the city cause I'm going to please myself,

(All photos:  The Sartorialist)

dress very comfortably and mostly......be very very happy.

You too, I hope!  xoxo!

It's August

WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

(Source: Westphoria Sunset)

Or should I be asking:  "Where have you been?"

Coit Tower Part Two - Interior Views; So Beautiful!

Executed under the Public Works of Art Project a Federal New Deal employment project,

the Coit Tower Murals have always been a little controversial

because of the "Leftist" associations claimed both by the artists who made them,

and the Lefty tendencies assigned to them by others.

The quality of the work is uneven, some of it executed by people who were students at the time.

But, I found these last two paintings to be exceedingly beautiful in the colorations and their simplicity.

What do you think?

Coit Tower Part One - The Exterior Views

Dave Eggers, a temporary San Franciscan in his book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 

describes the natural elements of San Francisco as almost "sexual".

 So exuberant to the point of ferociousness, and rugged, framing the nacreous peaceful

people-scape of the city, with its mostly low-rise silhouette on a hilly horizon.

The greenery doesn't always seem to be a product of the earth, but rather, something

left behind by the wind, or the sea.......the limbs seem always outstretched and a little tortured.....as if crying to be taken back along for the journey.  Out across the great not-so-Pacific-maybe Ocean.  To escape.  To adventure.  To oblivion.  To discovery?

Coit Tower is a perfect place to witness all of this from, and to see San Francisco as a

cosmic and elemental celebration of all of our small blue planet's comings and goings.

Cue the Music - Topps Diner in San Francisco

The local Diner:  A Great American Tradition.

I met my hubby in one.

Have I mentioned that?  

Mmmm Mmmmm Good!  (No regrets here!) 

Can you hear Chuck Berry playing in the background?


(HAPPY WEEKEND!!!)

Metanzas Creek Winery

Another day, another winery........

These pics are from our trip up to Northern California

at the end of May.

Too bad we were just about a week too early for the lavender.

Fields of lavender in full bloom?

Still on my list of "Thousand Things to Do Before I Die (!)".  What's on your list?