Pictures from Summer 2005 in San Francisco.  Enjoy!

Me and my friend/roommate Tiffany!

Me and the view of the city from the roof of my apartment building

Looking south

Night view of downtown San Francisco from atop my apartment building

Crazy steep San Francisco streets!

Jones Street in San Francisco.  Better make sure your car breaks work!

Anyone up for a nap?

Grace Cathedral Park

Grace Cathedral Park

Me at Grace Cathedral

Me at Grace Cathedral Park with sunbathing woman in background

Oh look, there I am in that door window!

The Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral in Nob Hill.

Beautiful Grace Cathedral

Ahhh. . .  soaking up the sun among a patch of tiny flowers

Me and a wall.  Exciting, eh!

Yet more summer relaxation

Helping filter out the city lights at night while I sleep.  "Tiffany, put that camera away!"

Me at a fountain in Grace Cathedral Park

The building I came THIS close to living in when I first arrived in SF.  Quaint and Euro-esque.

I left my heart in San Francisco!  (Err, Union Square!)

Tourists, a trolley and the Trans American Pyramid.

To this day I have yet to ride a trolley car.

US flag over San Francisco. . . the liberal western frontier.

Watch out: the parking NAZIs will get you!

China Town Gate @ Grant and Bush Streets

View of Union Square from the Cheesecake Factory atop Macy's Department Store.

Bush Street

Grace Cathedral on California and Taylor Streets

Union Square

Union Square by night

Me by night ;-}

Mason Street and great SF residential architecture

Me dreaming about a deli sandwich

Rooftop view of downtown

The French Church of our Lady of Victory

Beverly laughing at Tiffany's 31st birthday party

April and Tiffany

The Princess scowls

As per usual, me eating!

Tiffany and birthday card

Martin and Risa

Sisters: April and Tiffany

Blow, Tiffany, blow!

Gold nugget scampering around behind

The birthday princess!

Raul thoroughly interested by the women's tools

Silly is as silly does

Martin obsessing at the tattoo competition on Tiffany's back and shoulder

High school friends!

Taxi ride out to the bar

The gang!

Raul, Tiffany and Derek

Me and Martin

Tiffany and Tina

Above and below: high-rises in SF

Above and below: the bird and the bird's-eye-view.  Roof top garden at work

Above: Trans America Pyramid

Below: Bank of America building, just sold to the Chinese for $1 BILLION.

View out my office window

Above and below: Me at work.  Hey, I'm wearing a tie!

Creepy faceless figures atop the neighboring high-rise out our office window.

View of North Beach, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower from the north side of our 17th floor office.

High-rises downtown

Above: California Street cable car

Above and below: downtown SF made into the year 1981 for a Will Smith movie

Above and below: movie props turning downtown into the year 1981

Above: fake "Don't Walk" signs from 1981.  In 2005, most have been replaced by LED icons instead of words!

A homeless man and his dog.  Homelessness is a chronic problem in San Franicsco.

Market and Embarcadero Streets

Street car along Embarcadero Street

The Ferry Building along Embarcadero Street

Water art at the Embarcadero Center

Left: concrete art structure at the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco

Right: 3000 year older stone structure in Valley of the Queens in central Egypt.  Kinda reminded me!

Above and below: water as art

Me making my way through falling columns of water

A local having fun along Embarcadero Street

The San Francisco Bay Bridge basked in beautiful summer weather and crowned by sailboats floating lazily by

Flute player at the Ferry Terminal along the Embarcadero

Oh look, there I am at the Bay Bridge!

For cars or the ferry?!!

San Francisco Bay

Clock Tower at the Embarcadero

Above and below: nice brick architecture in downtown

Oh look, there I am again!

Ironically, the care in the picture was stopped in the middle of the intersection!

Great door in North Beach

Cross atop the Church of Saint's Peter and Paul in North Beach

This is a great billboard!  I love the look on the dog's face.

The view of Coit Tower from North Beach/Telegraph Hill

The planet's nervous system

View of the San Francisco Bay from Russian Hill

A little piece of Americana painted on the side of a U-HAUL truck

Great view of the TransAmerica pyramid from North Beach

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul on Washing Square in North Beach

View of San Francisco Bay from atop Russian Hill

The Church of Saint's Peter and Paul, and Washington Square

The view from Russian Hill

Tiffany on one of our summer picnics

Above and below: Friends at the Union Street Fair in the Marina District

Crazy poofy hairdo on woffie

ATM card declined again?!  ;-}

SF Bay and some facial scruff

Our picnic food.  Yummy!

Above and below: Union Street Fair

Woofie in a store window!

I must admit that I had never seen a "We Sell Fudge" sign before.

The Union Street Fair

The Pacific Gateway to America!

Welcome to San Francisco!  

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