I love America: Defending Against Tear Gas

A few weeks after arriving in San Francisco, Stephanie and I hiked the Pomo Canyon trail in Sonoma Coast State Park with Jonathan, Stacey, and friends. Along the way, I took a few photos that I liked—I think they look quite nice together.

This made me chuckle:

Understand that while on vacation, I visit independently owned grocery stores the way other people explore national parks.

(prompted by Marisa McClellan’s acquisition of Bi-Rite Market’s new “cookbook”: Eat Good Food)

Also see: Bi-Rite Market: Pioneer in the New Farm-to-Grocery Store Movement

Yet more Bi-Rite in the news: Sam Mogannam, founder of San Francisco’s Bi-Rite, sees food as community

Bi-Rite in the blogs: At the very epicenter of this seismic shift was Bi-Rite Market. When Bi-Rite opened as a high-end, European-style market, it didn’t just change that store. It changed the entire neighborhood.

In the Chronicle: Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost

Yikes: PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet (ironic that I just read this article in the NY Times: China Cracks Down on Bloggers and ‘Excessive’ Entertainment)

My walk to work takes me through a lively cross-section of San Francisco: down Fillmore and Church, then across the Mission on 18th Street all the way to Folsom. The beauty below caught my eye a few days ago, and reminded me how I used to walk to work with my camera on the off-chance I’d stumble upon something interesting (even after walking the same route, day after day). So this morning I decided to resuscitate the old habit.