Ellen's Santa Rosa Garden

Bennett Valley, Santa Rosa, CA, May 12, 2012:

The neighbor's roses.

Goldfinch on living room curtain rod.

The neighborhood cat.

Molly at home.

The National AIDS Memorial Grove

San Francisco, CA, May 11, 2012:  We stopped in San Francisco to see The National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.  The grove "is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember."  We found the grove to be a triumph in landscape design.

 

 

Flight to San Francisco

May 11, 2012:  We left late enough that one could see the sites of DC:

Capitol of the United States

White House, Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial

The Watergate and the Kennedy Center along the Potomac

The Georgetown Waterfront with the Connecticut Avenue and Ellington bridges at the top left.

National Cathedral with earthquake repairs underway on main tower.

Friendship Heights in front of the fairways at the Chevy Chase Club.

Downtown Bethesda with NIH and Naval Hospital left center and Mormon Temple toward the upper right.

The Little Falls of the Potomac

TELOS along Leesburg Pike in Ashburn, VA.

The Michigan shoreline of Lake Michigan.

Evanston, ILwith the Bahai Temple upper center with Northwestern University lakefill upper right.

Lake Nacimiento in San Luis Obispo, County?

Eden Landing Ecological Reserve on eastern shore of San Francisco Bay.

East end of the San Mateo Bridge.

San Francisco skyline and Oakland Bay Bridge viewed from the airport.

South San Francisco--The Industrial City.