A minimalist archive, moments in time.
San Francisco day, and the whole point was the Koret Children's Quarter in Golden Gate Park. The little car ride came first. The older one claimed a glittery…
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A summer day hiking at Muir Woods, twelve miles north of San Francisco on the flank of Mount Tamalpais. It's the only old-growth coastal redwood forest left in…
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The San Francisco Zoo sits way out at Sloat and the Great Highway, on the city's western edge, and it's been there since 1929 — which usually means fog, but…
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A mid-June weekend built around parks and coastal drives. The morning went to a big grass park — soccer fields mowed and empty, goals waiting at the far end, a…
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Took the girls down to Golden Gate Park for a Saturday at the California Academy of Sciences — the Renzo Piano building on Music Concourse Drive, open since…
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The sunroom was done up in pink for the hundredth birthday party — balloons tied to the tables, pink plastic champagne flutes lined up, a punch bowl going, and…
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Clay all day in San Francisco. First stop was a gallery hung with dark brick and small color panels, where a couple carved as two halves leaned into a kiss on…
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Spent the afternoon inside an empty mid-century house in San Francisco, the whole plan organized around an atrium at the core. You come in through a pair of…
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Middle of a January week on Maui, and today was the flight. Up out of Kahului with the harbor and the breakwater falling away, then straight at the West Maui…
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New Year's Eve, and the whole village turned out for it. Strings of lights ran overhead from building to building, lit snowflakes hanging from them, and under…
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