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I made this photo of my sweet love, Melody, holding a sign about how even undocumented immigrants contribute billions of tax dollars to our society at a May 1, 2025. This was the second rally at San Francisco Civic Center we had participated in. The first we marched to and past a Tesla dealer on San Francisco's Auto Row. This time we marched downtown Market Street. We left the march short of its destination to catch a city bus back to our neighborhood. Yes, Melody and I wore face masks. At this posting, Covid-19 is still killing 300 people a week in the United States.

I made this photo of an aging fence during Melody's and my daily walk in early April 2025. I had posted a photo of this fence on Flickr a little over one year before when this fence was new and brilliant in the afternoon light. I think the fence deteriorated so quickly because it was apparently painted without proper preparation or primer. What a shame that a fence, once so new and beautiful, should look like this so early in its life. Happy Fence Friday.

I made this photo of mosaics as Melody and I were walking home from from a visit to the public library several blocks down the hills of our San Francisco neighborhood. There are many mosaics throughout our Excelsior District, especially on the schools. This small section on Monroe Elementary School features a butterfly, a heart, bees and flowers, and the word LOVE. Wonderful subjects in this time of turmoil in the beginning months of March 2025 in our country. We pray every day that our states can remain United.

I made this photo of an aging fence in front of a home as I returning home after an appointment with a neighborhood dentist. I think I have photographed this fence while walking either to of from a previous appoint a year before. This is from a different angle and the fence looks even more weathered. Happy fence Friday.

I made this photo of a white rose with a pinkish tinge during Melody's and my walk near the end of March 2025. We have seen many wonderful roses on this bush in the front yard of a home we frequently pass. There are always a few roses that beg to be photographed. This one particularly spoke to Melody; who would like me to make greeting cards from this image that I captured using my Canon Powershot SX50.

I made this photo of a new fence next to a deck at the back of a house during Melody's and my daily walk on March 9, 2025. I shot this while standing on one of the several landings on the 99 steps bordering the Athens Avalon Greenspace a few blocks from our San Francisco home. Melody seems to climb the steps with ease. I take a bit more time and count the steps in each section as I go up: the first set is 11 stairs, the second is 13 stairs and the rest of the sets of stairs are 15 each. I usually stop at the landing after walking up 69 stairs. That is where I captured this image while I was catching my breath and resting my legs. Guess the owners of this house did not want anyone falling down the hill. Happy Fence Friday.

I made this photo as Melody and I were walking through John McLaren Park in mid February 2025 during our daily walk. We had taken a new route this particular day and had not see this fence before. From below, this short fence seemed out of place. When we walked to the top of the hill, however, we could see it was there to protect hikers from straying off the path onto a steep down slope. Happy Fence Friday.

I made this photo of wispy clouds as Melody and I were leaving a warehouse store in downtown San Francisco. Often times we find it easier to park on the top floor of the three story parking garage and walk two long ramps to the main entrance, a nice sprint of a couple hundred steps. I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50 that I carry with me whenever out and about – even grocery shopping.

I mad this photo of these beautiful fuchsia flowers during Melody's and my daily walk in early January 2025. We had passed the fuchsia bush displaying these Fuchsia boliviana alba or White Bolivian fuchsias many times before. I thought they were fuchsia flowers and easily confirmed it by searching long white fuchsia flowers on the Internet. These looked like fresh new growth. The brilliant background was that of a newly painted home in our San Francisco neighborhood. I shot these at a moderately close distance using my Canon Powershot SX50.

I made this photo of a coyote quickly moving up a hill as Melody and I entered John McLaren Park during our daily walk on February 19, 2025. We only saw this wild animal for a few seconds. Since I was carrying my camera on a strap around my wrist, I was able to activate the camera a grab this shot just before the coyote was hidden by the bushes. No the greatest shot in the world, but time was of the essence to even get this. There are signs in many parts of San Francisco about coyotes. Today the signs were not there but the coyote was. I shot this on the spur of the moment using the live view articulating monitor on my Canon Powershot SX50. This animal of prey looks like he has been eating well.

I made this photo of empty shelves in the egg section during a quick shopping trip to one of the stores Melody and I patronize at least once a week for our staples. In fact, the only eggs available in any of the stores we normally patronize were 7 dozen eggs that were selling for $15.99 a dozen. Guess $1.33 each is the price point very few people are willing to spend for an egg. Among other troubles in these early months of 2025, bird flu is right at the top, and resulted in millions of chickens being culled from infected flocks. As of February 2025, bird flu infection has moved to livestock, such as cattle, and even to at least one human. I shot this on Feb 12, 2025 using my Canon Powershot SX50 that I carry with me whenever out and about.

I made this photo of an I ♥ BANNED BOOKS tote bag for sale at Rainbow Grocery, a worker owned cooperative grocery and general store that Melody and I patronize at least once a week. Though I captured this image in late October 2024, nearly two weeks before our general election we have every four years in the United States, this banned books slogan is even more relevant at my posting on Flickr three weeks into our new regime who the dictator wannabe who is trying his damnedest to dismantle a two hundred and forty year Democracy.

I made this photo of the figure of a small dog etched into a concrete sidewalk as Melody and I were taking our daily walk. This sidewalk art was in front of a house a few blocks from our San Francisco home. I shot this at close range using the articulating live view monitor on my Canon Powershot SX50.

I made this photo of raindrops on flowers as Melody and I were walking past some street trees on the first day of February 2025. We had been visiting the owners of a sewing machine and vacuum cleaner store in the area after we had attended a real estate office opening of another friend who had just moved his office during the new year. We were in a happy mood, it stopped raining during our time out and about and about and these raindrop covered blossoms were begging to be photographed. I shot these using my custom setting for macro on my Canon Powershot SX50. A wonderful finish to a pleasant couple of hours on a refreshing Saturday mid day.

I made this photo of a hummingbird hovering at my friend Susie's home in the mountains of rural Idaho during a visit in the summer of 2008. She had a hummingbird feeder on the deck surrounding her home which attracted these little creatures. I shot this using a Powershot S5, one of a series of superzoom cameras leading up to the SX50 that I use now in 2025 when I am posting this photo. This is the front of a hovering hummingbird. A shot from the back is in the following slide.

I made this photo of a hummingbird that had paused before a feeder on the deck of my friend Susie's ranch house in the mountains of west central Idaho.

I made this photo of a fence at the corner of a backyard of an open house in mid January 2025. Melody suggested this might make a good Fence Friday photo. The sunlit portion on the right shows the beauty of the fresh wood and contrasts with the shadowed portion on the left. If you look closely over the chair on the left, you can barely see San Francisco's iconic Sutro Tower and Twin Peaks in the distance. You can see a closer view of the tower and peaks in the second slide following this one. As usual, I shot this using my Canon Powershot SX50 that I carry with me whenever out and about. Happy Fence Friday.

I made this photo of a box for Louis XIII de Rémy Martin Cognac Grande Champagne during Melody's and my visit to a warehouse store on the San Francisco peninsula in mid January 2025.
Mixed from over 1200 eaux-de-vie originating from the Grande Champagne region, and aged for up to 100 years in century-old tierçon barrels, Louis XIII is the spirit is of the world's rarest beverages. Four generations of cellar masters have managed to complement each other to produce a cognac with incomparable aromatic richness and achieve a palate of the most complex ever achieved. Because they are rare, and because they are aged for a very long time. The Louis XIII de Rémy Martin is so expensive because it is a blend of brandies which are between 40 and 100 years old. The 20000$ bottle is especially rare:
What I found amusing was that this expensive cognac had a 5 cent CRV deposit for the bottle. (CRV stands for Cash Redemption Value). After you empty the bottle of this expensive beverage you can turn the bottle in for a nickle.

I made this photo from the sun room at the rear of an open house that we stopped at during Melody's and my walk to John McLaren Park in mid January 2025. The day was pleasant. A good day for a walk. A good day for visiting an open house where we saw familiar realtors who work our part of San Francisco. And, a good day to capture an image of familiar icons of our city. I shot this through a window from a distance of two or three miles, using my Canon Powershot SX50.