Skywatch Friday - Royal Blue

Since I did not get an invitation to today's royal wedding, how about a photo of a royal blue sky?
Okay, it is not exactly royal blue nor this a real palace, but they are the closest thing.

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- Karen

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Cantor Arts Center Lobby

Visited the Cantor Arts Center Museum at Stanford University for the first time the other day. It has been in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1894 so I should not procrastinate any longer.
The marble-ladened lobby is beautifully adorned with Greek goddess Athena statue and a 2-sided staircase. And, if you look straight up, you will see its dome.
The museum was badly damaged in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, but it has been restored and even expanded with an additional 36,000 square-foot wing.

- Karen

Skywatch Friday - Afternoon Hike

That's my hiking group out there.
Some of us had to form a second group because we were too slow trying to photograph all the scenery along the way.

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Re-Energized by Color

These old trucks have been sitting at this lot for decades.
The new colors bring them back to life; well, at least in pictures.

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Skywatch Friday - Long Afternoon Journey

An easy afternoon stroll at a local state park.

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One

One seagull...

One orange...

One peacock...

Mondays are not the happiest days for most people having to go back to work after a blissful weekend so neither are my pictures for today of lonely solitary subjects.
Friday is now only 4 days away.

- Karen

Tourists

The last few weeks have been busy with constant guests coming from out of town, but this is one of the few tourist spots we actually visited.
Do you recognize this tourist spot in San Francisco?
It is Lombard Street or otherwise known as the "Crookedest Street in America" and probably the most traveled street in San Francisco by tourists.

Here are the dozen tourists at the bottom of the hill taking pictures.

At the top of the hill, you will see this sign right before the plunge downward.

This is a view of the city from the top of the hill.
Why the crooked street?
Because of the hill's 27% natural grade, back in 1922, they thought it was safer to design the road into a switchback formation and pave it with bricks.

For walkers, there are stairs with hand railing on both sides of the street.
Even being a native San Franciscan, this was my first time walking up and down those stairs. I was a tourist too!

- Karen

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Fancy Shoes

This is one of the most unusual, yet unique benches I have ever seen.
I only had my camera phone, but I just had to share it with you.
How many types of shoes do you see?

- Karen