Frisco Vista

This is the garden from the narrow side, looking west. Clevr had trouble with this image, so I just stitched it in Photoshop.

Hey! I see a weed!

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Virtual NoCal

• Art of the African savanna at the de Young : 60 sculptures by artists of the Luba, Songye, Chokwe, and Luluwa cultures
• Namastenancy not impressed by de Young preview : An overbearing “stench of class and power”
• Frisco Psychedelia : Vintage posters exhibited in Denver
• East Bay unemployment at all-time high : “This is the deepest we’ve been”
• Amygdules at Sibley Volcanic Reserve : “Fossil bubbles”
• An award to be proud of? : The Chronicle’s editors “should be asking themselves if . . . they went too far in slanting . . . stories against immigrants”
• Edible Expeditions : At the Conservatory of Flowers

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Panorama of pool garden, year 2 on CleVR.com

We actually took a step backward this year, in a way, because we expanded the garden by taking out more concrete, and so we undid some of our work from last year. But the garden recovered nicely and is doing well, especially considering our cold, gloomy June. The monster plants on the right are tomatoes, which are already starting to bear fruit.

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We have many bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds in the garden this year.

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This 1914 video shows opium paraphernalia being burnt in what is now the Civic Center area. At the time the area had not yet been rebuilt following the ’06 earthquake (because voters would not pass bonds for funding the project because of the corruption of city leaders), but here you can see the new city hall under construction.

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via bluehour on the Asian Art Museum blog

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