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Mid-June Parks and Coastal Drives from San Francisco

·San Francisco, California·#california#bay area#weekend#driving#vintage-cars#vineyards
A large green grass field with a soccer goal, trees, a light pole, and distant hills under a clear blue sky.

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 bald brown mountain showing above the tree line behind the light poles.

Midday was a winery pressed up against a rock hillside, vineyard rows climbing the slope and string lights hung over the lawn. An old Airstream sat under the trees with a wooden hatch chained open along its side, and parked on the grass nearby was a red Ford pickup wearing a 1929 California plate — whitewalls, red spoke wheels, black fenders, looking readier to run than most of what was in the lot. A steel sculpture spelling WINE in stacked letters stood by the path on the way out.

The drive out took Highway 1 along the water, and the fog everyone warns about for June never turned up. Clear the whole stretch — beach houses stacked on their pilings between the road and the surf, the ocean flat blue past the power lines, tile roofs and old palms crowding the bluff above the highway.

A green soccer field with a goal, a tall light pole, trees, and a distant mountain under a clear sky.A silver camper trailer is parked outdoors with a wooden table, chairs, wine barrels, and a flamingo statue in front.A vintage red Ford pickup truck with black fenders and white-wall tires is parked on grass in front of a vineyard.A red vintage pickup truck on green grass sits before a vineyard under string lights and a blue sky.A large metallic 'LOVE' sculpture in a grassy area with grapevines, a vintage red car, wine barrels, and hills.View from a car of a highway winding along a sunny coastline with hills on the left and the ocean on the right.Several modern light-colored buildings overlook a blue ocean under a clear sky, with power lines and a fence in the foreground.Two large palm trees with long green fronds partially obscure a tiled roof and green bushes below.

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