Tag Archives: San Francisco

Blue Monday ~ Seattle to San Francisco

Welcome to Blue Monday hosted by Smiling Sally. My photos this week are from the Seattle area and from San Francisco.

 

Over Thanksgiving we made at trip to Ste Michelle Winery and enjoyed their fabulous Peacock tree and Tree Topper and wreath. Then we went outside and met their inspiration, this wonderful peacock!

 

From Seattle I flew to San Francisco to meet up with Dear who was attending the American Society of Hematology conference and here is some blue from this very interesting city.

 

Hope you enjoyed my Blue this week. Enjoy your Monday and new week!

Visit Sally at Smiling Sally to see more Blue Monday Posts.

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Pink Saturday ~ Travels

It’s time for Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly at How Sweet the Sound! I’ve been travelling since Thanksgiving and am finally back home at the little condo in Southern California. The first collage are shots of pink I saw in San Francisco.

 

Nieman Marcus had all their little trees decorated with pink and white. When we were in the Ferry Terminal a little pastry bakery had this cute little white tree with some pink on it, too. The pink plastic bag is on the back of one of the Trolley cars I was travelling on.

 

When I got back home I headed over to the Camarillo Ranch House to see it all decked out for Christmas. I’ll post a full tour of this great Historic Victorian Home in my town that the family that the city is named after owned. Each bed had a quilt made by different quilters for the Christmas season. So different and beautiful. I’m just showing the pink ones. There are a few more beds in this great house with other fabulous handmade quilts on them.

To see more Pink visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound. A good weekend to you all…

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Fridays Fave 5 ~ San Francisco Style…

The lovely Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts Fridays Fave Five where we recap our favorites from the past week.

 

I met Dear in San Francisco on Saturday to celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary so here are my Faves from the time we spent there and a couple from home.

1. Celebrating our Anniversary with a walk around the city and dinner at Scoma’s Italian Fish Restaurant in Fisherman’s Wharf and our lunches at Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub.

2. Walking into some old churches with the most amazing interiors and stained glass windows.

3. The 4 story Christmas Tree at Nieman Marcus in San Francisco and all the other wonderful Christmas displays in the city.

4. Coming home and seeing the Tumbleweed tumbling around the neighborhood!

 

5. Finding treasures at my favorite thrift stores in both Washington and Camarillo. These sweet Brambly Hedge Tea cups, 1 for each season, were found at Goodwill in Washington. Only the Autumn one has the saucer so I’ll have to be on the lookout for the other saucers. :0)

For more Fave Fives visit Susanne at Living to Tell the Story.

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ABC’s of the Word ~ Testify

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2 Timothy 1: 8-10 ~ “So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”

For more ABC’s of the Word visit Pam at Grey Like Snuffie.

San Francisco

 

I have so many photos I want to share from my 3 days in San Francisco. I’ll be choosing several over the next few days and will have a few San Francisco Posts. These are three collages I have already…

 

Our first day Dear and I met up at Johnny Foley’s for a pint and some great Lamb Sliders! Then we walked all about the town and ended up on the Trolley car. That’s our great trolley car driver! The roof shot is from the Ferry Building at the end of Market Street. It has lots of great specialty and gourmet shops housed in the building.

 

This is Saints Peter and Paul Church in the Italian Section of San Francisco. Since the Italians who came to North Beach in the 1870’s were primarily fishermen, it became known as “the Church of the Fishermen,” and yearly processions to bless the fishing fleet still start out here. I have more photos from the inside of this beautiful church to share later.

Photobucket is holding all my photos from 2007 to 2015 hostage and has replaced them all with ugly black and grey boxes asking for a ransom to have them re-published. Such a frustrating bother.

Our 34th Wedding Anniversary in San Francisco

I arrived in San Francisco from Seattle on Saturday and met up with Dear at Foley’s Irish Pub for a snack and a Guinness before we headed out on a walking tour of Market Street, the Ferry Building, Embarcadero and on to Scoma’s for dinner at Fisherman’s Wharf.

The food was really wonderful at Scoma’s. Dear had the Lazy Man’s Cioppino (with the crabmeat out of the shell) and I had the Broiled Swordfish con Fagioli (broiled with White Beans, Swiss Chard and Pancetta) It was served with mashed pototoes. I want to give a shout out of thanks to Michelle and Pam for recommending this great restaurant. Our good friends the Romero’s also recommended it. So 3 families in 3 different parts of the U.S.A. all gave us the same recommendation. We knew it would be great. Bloggy friends are great resources!!

I have to wait to get back to my condo and good internet service to upload any more of my San Francisco Photos. This hotel connection is very painfully slow. I mean really slow!! I have a couple preposts ready to go for Monday and Tuesday thank goodness…

Ho, Ho, Ho!

My time in Washington is winding down. Yesterday was a full day. I got my roots taken care of by my favorite hairdresser in the Seattle area. I wrote the Christmas letter, addressed the Christmas cards, and now all I have to do is stuff the letter in each one and we’re good to go. I took out the decorations that are going to go up this year and they are all in place. A scaled down Christmas for us. On Saturday morning I fly to meet Dear in San Francisco. We are going to celebrate our anniversery dinner at Scoma’s on Fisherman’s Wharf. We’ll take the trolley from the hotel. Most of my time in San Francisco I’ll be exploring on my own as Dear is busy with a conference there. I’ll let you know what I see next week. Enjoy your day everyone…

San Francisco ~ Suggestions Please

Does anyone out there know San Francisco? I get to spend a few days there in December while Dear attends a conference. He’ll be busy for a lot of the day so I’ll be on my own to view the city with my blogger eyes and camera. The last time Dear and I were in San Francisco was in 1974 one night of our honeymoon. So here are my questions…

1. What do I need to make sure I see? And what should I avoid?

2. Do you have any restaurant suggestions? How about one really nice place to celebrate our 34th wedding anniversary on Saturday December 6th!

3. Do you know some great free attractions?

4. What museum is worth it?

5. Should I drive out of town to see something close by?

Any input will be appreciated.