Wednesday, October 6, 2010

San Francisco

Got away to San Francisco last weekend for a music festival. It always amazes me how beautiful the surroundings are in this city. For all of the water that is around New York you rarely get the feeling you're near the ocean. In San Francisco you can smell it in the air.



The festival was "Hardly Strictly Bluegrass" in Golden Gate park. Sooo many great bands were there - Patty Griffin, Jenny & Johnny, Conor Oberst, Indigo Girls (yes, to me they are great), Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith, Avett Brothers and some more.
We made it to Arcade Fire (opened by Calexico) in Berkley too. It was worth it to see Michelle see them for the first time. I think it changed her life, or at least made it a lot better.

Besides the music I was such a nerd for the plant life at Golden Gate Park and around SF. The trees in particular in the park were AMAZING.





There were so many people selling "stuff" there. This guy was one of my favorites. He was writing poems in person on his little type writer with the mantra "name your subject name your price".

There were also a LOT of these guys.



Then there was the drive there and back. Long and beautiful.


Poor Tyler, we tuckered him out with all of our Indigo Girls singing in the car.

5 comments:

chelsea b james said...

yay! i'm glad you finally posted about your little get away. Those trees are pretty magnificent, I can hardly believe the scale of those suckers! wish i could have been there for the dike music. wipe a tear

Lacey said...

looks amazing! those trees are really cool, even in the pictures which i know probably don't even do them justice. Yay for singing to indigo girls in the car . . . memories.

lbb said...

what pretty pictures! you see things in a lens in such a unique and gorgeous way, you artist.
glad you had fun!
man you look SMOKIN hot in that one pic...holy.
i play indigo girls in the kitchen all the time and sid says they just "whine sing". true dat.
miss your gutz.

amanda james said...

oh my, seems like there was the best people watching ever. I love the suspender guys. seems so dreamy.

farn said...

i love the indigo girls! reminds me of good ole days when we had nothing to do but hang out and sing their songs!