 Friday 7 November 2025
2025 The Train Ride Itself, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART), Sonoma and Marin Counties, California
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The Petaluma Station was open for business. A distant shopping center was visible from the SMART train. The SMART train crossed a road in downtown San Rafael. The train was just parked at the Larkspur Station. At the station was a machine with which one could buy or add value to one's Clipper Card. Also, folks 65 or older, could ride for free. An apartment building stood beside the SMART train tracks. The SMART train finally arrived at the Larkspur Station. The SMART train passed a farm house under an oak tree. The SMART train would arrive at the other side of the Larkspur Station. The Navato station was undergoing remodeling. The Smart Station offered free WiFi.
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Thursday 6 November 2025
The Town Of Santa Rosa, A California City
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On the other side of Echelon Cyclery were sketched art of people swimming, bycling, and running. Flowers grew alongside the sidewalk, with a brick building behind. A tree stump in the sidewalk, showed how the tree's growth deformed the sidewalk. On the other side of the overpass was a bicycle shop called, "Echelon Cyclery." On the side of Echelon Cyclery was a painting of signs showing distances to other town and other sites. The town of Santa Rosa, Callifornia was typical of most California small downtowns. Halloween decor stood on the edge of the roof of one of the Santa Rosa downtown buildinga. A sign in one of the store windows read, "Goblin Bros. Games & Gear."
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Wednesday 5 November 2025
Freeway Supports, As Found Art, San Francisco, California
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Two vertical columns were decorated with art. A closer view of the two vertical columns decorated with art. A wall support of the freeway was decorated with more of the geometric shapes. Geometric shapes decorated another of the freeway supports. A closer view of the closest of the two vertical columns. A closer view of a few of the geometric shapes decorating the wall support of a freeway. A closer view of the furthest of the two vertical columns.
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Monday 3 November 2025
The Castro Street Fair, An Annual Event, San Francisco, California
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Plywood cut-outs were available for attendes to take selfees. An overview of the Castro Street Fair ending at Market Street in the distance. Tables with unbrellas were available for a place to eat while at the fair. The Cheer team began to perform. Rainbow flags flew over the buildings and almost everywhere in the fair. A large Statue Of Liberty stood next to a booth. One fellow walked around the fair with a parasol and streamers. Another yellow inflatable penis stood in the middle of Castro street. Another booth had a bubble machine making bubbles during the fair. That same Kay Sugars' booth sold jewelery made from actual fruit.
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• The Collingwood Stage
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Friday 31 October 2025
Happy Halloween! From Oregon and California
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A neon ghost in a residential window, appeared to wave at the passing pedestrians. A skeleton appeared to be rising from a grave. Toy skeletons in a store window appeared to cheer a passer-by. A skeleton, dressed as a doctor, haunted a front yard. A huge skull was painted on a garage door. The giant skeleton in a front yard appeared to lean over pedestrians on the sidewalk. Another skeleton also appeared to be rising from a grave. A ghost appeared to be hovering around planted flowers. A gigantic skeleton stood in a residential yard. A chrome pumpkin headed skeleton stood among shadows of furniture. A pumpkin headed creature, and a gnome, were displayed in a store window.
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Monday 27 October 2025
Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, California
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The park rules were posted just inside the entry to Sutro Heights Park. The Pacific Ocean lay beyond a fence at the eastern edge of Sutro Heights Park. A closer view of one of the benches alongside the garden in Sutro Heights Park. Houses were visible just beyond the eastern edge of Sutro Heights Park. A garden and benches were inside Sutro Heights Park. They provided rest for the weary visitor. Purple flowers bloomed alongside the path into Sutro Heights Park. A history of Sutro Heights Park, and of Adolph Sutro, was just inside the entry to Sutro Heights Park. A metal plaque was attached to the base of one of the lions. It described the life of Adolph Sutro.
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Sunday 26 October 2025
Lucky Penny Coffee Shop, Artist: Unknown, Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, California
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The Lucky Penny Coffee Shop used to exist as one of those rare 24 hour restaurants in San Francisco. Part of the mural, on the lucky Penny Coffee Shop, featured a star chart with the work, "Cuckoo." A city, a bird, and a mushroom farm, all under glass, were also painted on the wall of the Lucky Penny Coffee Shop. Words were also painted next to the parking lot of the Lucky Penny Coffee Shop. They read, "Cloud Cuckoo Land." One work of art on the Public Storage building was, "MDW 25, Old World, New Dawn, CA RO." It featured a tall bird with words around it. Another work of art on the Public Storage building was a BART train breaking through the wall.
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Friday 23 October 2025
2025 Eugene, Oregon, Party Invitation Images, Eugene, Oregon
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One of our neighbors had suspended a spooky cloth next to their front walkway. Pumpkins were set on a porch chair, surrounded by spiders on a black web, next to a string of skulls. An evil witch was set on a neighbor's front yard bush. One of our neighbors had decorated their porch with skulls, and other spooky items. A ghost concrete dog stood behind a chain fence supported by a skull posts. A skeleton hugged a tombstone that read, "Ima Goner."
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Thursday 22 October 2025
2025 Amtrak, Trip North, A U.S. Railroad, Southern Oregon
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Our Amtrak train on its way north, passed a storage facility with the name, "Main Street Mini Storage," on it. Our Amtrak train finally arrived at the stony hills of southern Oregon. There among the evergreen trees, we passed a low tree that had its branches covered in golden colored leaves. A large letter K was set near the top of a hill. This K meant were passing Klamath Falls, Oregon. Only four lights were lit on and in a distant warehouse. Our Amtrak train finally arrived at the evergreen covered hills of southern Oregon. The morning sunrise had just peaked over the distant land. Our next Amtrak train passed by a farm that appeared abandoned.
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Wednesday 22 October 2025
2025 Amtrak, Trip South, A U.S. Railroad, Oregon and California
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Wet lands paralleled the Amtrak route south through California. A video of the train trip south, which includes video from the Castro Street Fair. Support cables for the Bay Bridge were in the foreground, and Treasure Island lay beyond in the middle of San Francisco Bay. A dirt road paralleled the train tracks on the trip south. A rusted vent atop a warehouse next to the Amtrak route south. The Amtrak trip south paralleled a ranch in northern California. Power lines and a wet road paralleled the train tracks on the trip south. After hundred of miles traveled, San Francisco finally came into view. Two windmills generated power in the distance from the Amtrak route south.
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Tuesday 21 October 2025
Charlie Brown Art, Santa Rosa, California
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Two of the characters from the Charlie Brown comic strip, Charlie Brown and Snoopy, were turned into brass statues and displayed in Santa Rosa, California. Charlie Brown, from the comic strip, was turned into a statue and displayed in Santa Rosa, California. Two of the characters from the Charlie Brown comic strip were turned into statues and displayed in Santa Rosa, California. Charlie Brown, in this view, faced the camera. Woodstock, from the Charlie Brown comic strip, sat in a blue nest and dreamed of flying a plane. The plane, from the bird's dream, was painted flying over low green hills. Charlie Brown wore a conductor hat and held out his pocket watch.
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Sunday 19 October 2025
Mermaid, Coralee, As Found Art, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
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A closer view of the Mermaid's tail showing all the detail in it. The mermaid Coralee stared across the road and away from the bay. A sign was posted next to the Mermaid, "Coralee's" sculpture. It describe the sculpture, in part, as: Dana Albany (b. 1969) Coralee, 2022 Recycled Glass, Mixed Metals 12' H x 20' L Coralee is a mermaid sculpture composed of recycled glass and mixed metals, originally created in Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England, of the Peak District and symbolizes feminine strength, beauty, and environmental awareness. A mermaid statue, named Coralee, was located next to Joyride Pizza on the Embarcadero sidewalk in San Francisco.
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