If you lived here you'd be home by now.

poof

odds / ends of a newly minted el cerritan

da bean

My sweet Hannah. The coal miner.

BART tough. Again.

what trees are these?

They are all over Albany, and so lovely.

found on my cell phone

This guy. Qui es-tu?

Pisceans with unicorn

♥

The windows at a laundromat on lower Solano are covered with children's valentines right now. They are made of familiar stuff: construction paper, glitter, scissored doilies, and sweet, if worn, messages -

"Happy Valentine's Day!"
"LOVE"
"Be mine."

My favorite though was this one, a simple, semi-symmetric purple heart with two lesser pink hearts attached, all smiles.

"I SEE YOU!"

At first I laughed, in appreciation of the irrepressible weird of weird kids. We rule, no? Then I took a few steps and realized it wasn't so strange. It was precocious and perfect. What more could we ask of love than to be seen for who we are?

Happy Valentine's Day.

A moral alphabet.

pigeon of the week

Inspired by the Tenderloin Geographic Society. I really need to start carrying my camera around so I can stalk pigeons in earnest. This cell phone camera nonsense isn't cutting it.

Dear sir, I only wish to please you.

It's too late. You looked directly at her.

DC sculpty

Anna's jeebus birfday.

onward and upward! (p.s. do not name years retrospectively.)