And now something new that was old

In the past I talked and posted links about the

development in the park where I practice Taichi.

This picture is the Academy of Sciences which

will open this Saturday.

I do taichi at the Music Concourse which is in the

foreground. Far in the back atop Parnassus mt. is

the University of California Medical Center.

My apartment is three blocks to the right of it.

You can read the article at leisure and look at the 

rest of the pictures. It's been at least 25 years since

I visited the Academy.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=19&f=/c/a/2008/09/21/MNEO12RQBT.DTL

Wild West at Ocean Beach

We went to see this yesterday morning.

I took the picture.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/MNFS12OSPK.DTL

tired...

of seeing and hearing my name so much.

I'm happy today will probably be the last

day.  

Yesterday was the first wonderful day

of this birthday weekend. We finally made

it to this little town by the coast called

Pescadero for this restaurant called

Duarte's. It's just an old family restaurant

but the freshness of the ingredients and

the simple way of cooking delighted us

more than the expensive well-educated

fares we've been sampling the last year and

a half.

http://www.duartestavern.com/

Afterwards we spent an hour atop a bluff

over the Ocean and a huge flock of pelicans,

maybe 500, swooped in front of us to land at

a little island a quarter of a mile away. 

This was what we were planning for my birthday

in 2001, which we spent in bed watching tv.

We still have a couple of days to gorge ourselves

fat.