Garrapata

 

GARRAPATA

Austin Keegan

Lyrics

 

Down the Coast, Heavy Surf

 

DOWN THE COAST, HEAVY SURF

BILL COOKE

 

Mike Bridges' image from Pier 39, San Francisco:

Salesforce Tower, 

Coit Tower, 

Transamerica Pyramid, 

555 California..

The Aspiration of a 10 Year Old

 

On 17th Street near Mission, San Francisco

When my twin bro and I were 10 year old kids living in SF, I wanted to have a shop like these guys--I was thinking washing machine and refrigerator repair and sales.  Maybe water heaters.

The Gravesite of Thornton Chase

 

 Thornton Chase (1847-1912) is recognized as the first American Baha'i.  He was given the Persian name Sabet, or Steadfast, by Abdu'l-Baha,  whom Mr. Chase had visited in Akka, Palestine, in 1907, where Abdu'l-Baha was a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire. 

Apparently there were several others who had professed their belief in the Station of Baha'u'llah prior to Thornton.  They, however, fell away, while Mr. Chase remained steadfast in the Faith. 

His grave is located in the Inglewood Park Cemetery,  Los Angeles, California. 

Pond, Golden Gate Park

 

Pond 

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

Gloria Judd

Labor Day

"Every person must have an occupation, a trade or a craft, so that he may carry other people's burdens, and not himself be a burden to others." ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Ford Econoline

 

Ford Econoline

Sand Dollars

 

Sand Dollars in Seaside, Oregon

(Oregonian)

That Great Eschatological Event

 

"The declared purpose of history’s series of prophetic revelations...has been not only to guide the individual seeker on the path of personal salvation, but to prepare the whole of the human family for the great eschatological Event lying ahead, through which the life of the world will itself be entirely transformed. The revelation of Bahá’u’lláh is neither preparatory nor prophetic. It is that Event."  

--Shoghi Effendi, One Common Faith

Dream Car

 

 1950 Plymouth Suburban 

Black River

 

Kanichi Yamamoto

 

Kanichi Yamamoto

Born: 1879, Japan

Death: 1961, Berkeley, California

First Japanese Baha'i

Kanichi Yamamoto was known for his faithfulness and cheer.

Village Life, Gilan, Iran / زندگی در یک روستای بکر در گیلان

(Subtitles)

San Francisco

 

Girl posing in front of her house at the Centennial. 

San Francisco, 1976

The End of the Trail

 

Cement Plant Road

 

Cement Plant Road, Davenport, California

It Happens

 

Even when you're on the right track, there's always the unexpected.

SF Walkabout

 

Bib Black's walk

Roseburg Oregon

 

Broken Air Con Joins JOE (Jazz Object Ensemble)

Jazz Object Ensemble

Tripp

 

Nephew Tripp 💗

Fort Worden

 

With granddaughter at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington

Laurel's Flowers

 

Константин Сомов

 

Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов, November 30, 1869 – May 6, 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Born into a family of a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator Andrey Ivanovich Somov, he became interested in 18th-century art and music at an early age.  WikiArt

Пастораль 1896

 Портрет Луизы Морган

Опушка леса. Лигово 1894 

Вечерний пейзаж

Портрет А.И.Сомова, отца художника

Интерьер на даче Павловых

Пашня  1900

 

Dogwood 2021

 

My backyard dogwood is showy this year!

вика с бабушкой

 

Victoria with her Grandmother

The Garden Temple

 

The Garden Temple

Studio City CA

The Garden Temple is an enterprise in Studio City, California, that "...designs and crafts products for garden and home. "  I was disappointed to find the gate locked that Sunday in 2008 when I was visiting Southern California as I wanted to walk about the temple grounds.  It's quite compelling. 

I gleaned these pictures from their website.

In 1956 we lived in a little house around the corner, long before the neighborhood evolved and the Garden Temple came into being.  Our house and most the the neighborhood has been razed and rebuilt, so it is serendipitous that the backyard where I spent so many hours as a nine year old--  alone and with my brothers-- has become a place of art and serenity. 

The small shed in the picture had been one brother's chemistry lab, and later another brother's bank.