joy buzzers

The house was filled with the sound of remote-controlled helicopters all weekend.



Don't ask why.

giving thanks

I ran into my friend marching in the annual day-after-Thanksgiving animal rights protest on Michigan Avenue.

happy thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the one family event that is non-negotiable, more so than Christmas. It's kind of funny, though, because in our family, every day is like Thanksgiving. We loves to eat! This is on New Year's Day, 2009, in Malaysia.

family lineup

This is what it looks like when we try to gather for a photo.

keeper of the goal

cue whitesnake

sunday vertical

This was in Segovia, Spain, in July. A lot can happen in five months.

in the end

Everything looks beautiful--if you look at it in the right way.

hikers on a hillside

thursday duo

Post office boxes in Sea Ranch (Sonoma):


And mailboxes at the harbor in Sausalito:

sunset talks

The Pacific by Bodega Bay.

never turn your back on the ocean

solitaire

It was so windy at the beach on Saturday that Juan could play frisbee with himself.

old crow

I read that crows can live to be 75 years old.

my other limo

Muni at night.

Ricky

I've known Ricky for 10 years.

a moment

Ricky and I biked over the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday on honor of Veterans' Day.

thursday vertical

lookout

The idea of having dogs in apartment buildings seems so strange to me, mostly because then you have dogs on balconies.

high-rise

From the toaster towers in front of Galileo High School.

san francisco

i need a job

Or just this bike.

for the birds

Last week I invested $3 in this bell-shaped chunk of bird seed and tied it to the fire escape with a rubber band. I wanted to feed my little friend, this black phoebe who comes every day and catches insects but, of course, that bird really only eats...insects. It took the other birds two days to find the seed bell, and now there are lots of them, including this Western Scrub-Jay. It is so big that Juan calls it "the blue chicken."



My father would die if he saw this crappy photo, since he does real bird photography. I shot this through the window screen so it is like manually pixelating it.

it's friday!

I almost got a rat last week.

scoot-shoot

This never gets old.

hands up

I watched the game at this little bar on Polk Street called Cresta's. One woman in orange was discarding peanut shells on the ground and drinking white wine.

Giants Win!

The Giants won the World Series last night and the entire city was celebrating. This guy was just running in the middle of the street high-fiving people in their cars.

The Sideline's Shadow

The Friday before I left Illinois, I shot this photo story for Norman Einstein's sports monthly.