So This is Xmas (War is Over)

Wild Times at the Hi-Lo

Fire in the Sky

Sunset in Weed, California.

Christmastown City Hall

Holiday Magic

The Last Vestiges of Santacon

Xmas Eve in San Francisco.

If Only In My Dreams

Return of the Native

Lego My Universe of Art

Research Center on the Hill

Santacon 2013

A few of my favorites from this year's Santa Drinkathon. More below the fold. Merry Happy etc! More...

Busytown at Night

Santa Dog

Haight Ashbury Girls

Showing Her Sensitive Side

Hopped-Up Lindyers

Traffic Troubador

She Stays on My Mind

I Met a Man Who Wasn't There

Long Road to Freedom

Words Fly Away

Civic Center Clouds

Pyramid

Happiest Skeleton in the Boneyard

Dark Passage

Because every now and then you just have to take another picture of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Birds of a Feather

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Remembrance of Things Past

Ghostly mourners watch over the (cake-based) body of Marcel Proust at the Proust Wake, commemorating the anniversary of his death on November 18, 1922 (and this year, the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann's Way).

Long Green

Memories of a Very Different Fireside

Outside The Palace

Agitator

The Bridge at Bridgeport

Discovered that there is another Bridgeport in California in addition to the one on Hwy 395 that I've been familiar with all my life. This is a spot in the road along Hwy 20 in Gold Country, and it is home to the longest covered bridge in the US, built in 1862. The bridge spans the Yuba River.

I'm Saving One Space for You

Balloons Across Geary

Road Trip Cut Short

In Your Face

Apparently San Francisco has a (minor-league) hockey team called the Bulls (who knew?). This is their mascot, Rawhide. Now you know.

An Officer and a Gentleman

Next Stop Ukiah

Radio Rice Ranch

Bender

Last Halloween post of the year, I promise.

Halloween Heimlich

Rift Zone

More Fun

Zombie Michelle Bachmann

Corpse Bride

Happy Halloween, everybody!