Hump Day Inspiration: Much love to San Francisco parks.

Because let's admit it, most action happens on the bike lane & eventually, we make it to the park to meet friends, eat our lunch, catch up on the weekend, walk a dog, spend some quality solo time or read a book, parks are there. And we are fortunate to have such lovely green open spaces throughout every neighborhood of our city.

Photo by ©Dusty Jensen

Photo by ©Dusty Jensen

Both above photographs taken last year by my awesome friend Dusty, in the Hayes Valley Playground park and open space for several artist to do their art installations (this time of year was a huge silver colored piece sign.
Can you believe this area right, carried tremendous traffic on a giannormous SF freeway?! that is, until the 1989 earthquake.
link resource: here


Crazy!! Park, tress, and random moments - much better :D

♥ Write A Love Letter To Your Park Today!

This February, Neighborhood Parks Council is asking San Franciscans to write a love letter to their favorite city park through our Love Letters to Parks campaign. -SF Neighborhood Park Council

To see webpage/details, go here: sfnpc.org

And here is our infamous Alamo square, exactly one year ago – It was raining just as it is today.

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Glitterazzi

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALITEXICAN!!!
cheers to a tea-caffeination year of good times

♥mucho love y glitter y todo y bikes♥
it's so magical, we'd be so fantastico




"but it's almost my size?!"...



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Things and Thoughts on Tuesday.

Without music, life would be an error. -Nietzsche
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. -Albert Einstein

Fruitvale – Oakland, Calif.

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Skulls attract more skulls.

Where to next?!

I'd like to dedicate this post to the glitteri skulls that now keep me company whenever I ride the smurfette, my Italian steel beauty which gets no love (ok does twice a month count?).
Stephen gave me a little cute saddle bag with skulls (red glittery eyes!) Christmas gift and it matches my bracelet cuff, which has a skull on it. How cool?!
Apparently skulls attract more skulls. Here are some recent pictures at Flora Grubb gardens.

calaca coja y sin boca.

Powerufl machines.

The bag is made by Krieg cycling bags, and I looked it up and they carry other cool funky designs, seems like a nice small company based out of Spokane WA.

Here is a recent photo of Stephen and I on our way to the ballet with a group of friends, and he thought I wouldn't post this picture because we were not standing next to bikes or coffee "and some cute boys." Meeeh –

And here are a couple of pictures he sent me awhile back from the ArtCrank poster show.

cheeeeeese.

me either saying something silly, or being a clown.

Actually during the show, he was the one that brought to my attention that my poster was the only one to say San Francisco on it. Coolness. It was good times, I loved seeing so many awesome pieces!

Stephen is a huge bicycle fanatic, we talk bikes, coffee and other geeky cool stuff. In 2009 he would "commute" to work and i say it in quotes because that would take me like 8 hours to do!! - he would bike to work "only" for about 50 miles in under 3 hours. ummm, yeah. Crazy nut.
I'd also like to thank him for being such an awesome friend and supporter of my bike blog ramblings.
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Can't wait to ride with you again whenever you are ready (he had a gnarly bike related injury), and my best wishes for your shoulder to get well soon!!
•xo♥m•

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Wool and the City.

Meet Eric.

Friend of the bike, bloggy, coffee peeps. You might have seen him around the blog a few times, but for a gloomy Monday that we will have (Am I the 1% in SF that loves this weather?!) I feature his awesome collection of sweaters, I have taken these photographs between June last year and fairly recent. Thought I'd share this styling man on wheels. He also has a great collection of vintage steel bicycles, but that's a whole other big chapter.. :D
Ride on Eric!

On our way to Fairfax.

ya talkin to me?!

howya'doin?! - at Flora Grubb

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Check out his blog at: Classic lightweight bikes & rides.

I also cross-posted today, a Sunday rainy ride from a few weeks ago over in the Collab blog of 4 women: Change Your Life. Ride A Bike!

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WTF of the day: Bay Bridge sans light.

News as of Sunday evening, the Bay Bridge was without power. That Bay Bridge scares me. Have not been on it for ages, and don't plan to. Too much drama, accident drama.
There are no bike lanes in the crumbling Bay Bridge. They want to only have 1/2 access for the newer bridge opning in 2013 (I think is the year, I've lost count) which, will also in a figurative way, maintain it in the dark... -cheers.

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Submissions.

A couple of weeks ago I entered a fun contest at work. Participants were to submit 3 pictures and I picked a few that you are probably familiar with if you have followed the blog for some time. It was exciting to see them in 8x10 so I printed a few.

Prints. Velcro inspects.

The Photography event took place last Thursday and it very cool to see my coworkers' photographs and enjoy some mingling time. The voting was decided upon post-it notes. My team and I were not in the popular ones, but it was still pretty fun. Here are some snaps. Cheers!

arp.

sweetland. They're all pretty and little but I didn't have any – I really don't like sweets.

Here are my buddy, Lady N. submissions.

and here we are with mine.
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♥•xoxo•♥

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