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In addition to Thing-a-Day this month, I’m taking a stab at “365 photos,” which is intended to be a photo a day. I’ve missed a handful of days and refuse to feel bad about it. During the week, I’m even using 365 photos as my daily things. SO LAZY. I’m enjoying reconnecting with my environment.
Thursday I was at odds.
Today for Thing-a-day I went to a park near work that I’ve walked past hundreds of times before and looked for things I hadn’t really seen.
… we don’t get autumn leaves in San Francisco
Mind you, there’s another tree in flower about 30 feet from this one.
I’ve been taking a lot of bike rides at lunchtime this year. I nip out to Fort Point and back – about 10 miles round trip. Sometimes I bring a camera, because there are lots of birds on that route, but sometimes all I have is my phone – which almost did the job on this partly cloudy, drizzly day, when a rainbow stretched from Alcatraz to Fort Mason as I rode back to the office.
