San Francsco Ramblings

Highlights of our ramblings included riding the San Francisco trolley and visiting Coit tower on Telegraph Hill. If you squint, you can see the tower in the background. Coit Tower is worth a visit for its spectacular views of both the city, Golden Gate Bridge and all of the Bay area, and its depression-era public art works murals painted in 1934 in the Diego Rivera social style.




Couldn't miss a walk down Lombard street.... or...

dinner at Fishermen's Warf.

We finished our visit with the Castro and Mission districts. The Castro district is the center of the gay community with a memorial to Harvey Milk, the first openly gay city supervisor who was shot in 1978. The old hispanic Mission district is known for its many colorful murals. Note Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

As part of our visit to San Francisco, we strolled amids the cherry trees, flowering azaleas, oriental magnolias, Japanese maples, dwarf pines, cedars and cypresses in the Japanese Tea Garden in the middle of Golden Gate Park. The garden is an oasis of calm and quiet that provides respite from the bustling city. Definitely one of the highlights of our visit.

Japanese black pine, the oldest plant in the garden, brought over from Japan as a potted plant over in the early 1900's.

Cranes and stone pagoda.