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Sunday, August 29, 2004

It's Finally Summer in SF

The dog days of summer are supposed to be over, but apparently it takes me a few cycles before I remember how the weather actually works here in San Francisco. I should have known as I drove home along I-280 when I saw not a spec of fog coming over the hills from Half Moon Bay. Usually, I'm quite taken with the speed of the clouds as they fall over the mountains into the Crystal Springs Reservoir. The variations in the early evening sky are what I look forward to most during my drive home from work. Friday, however, it was sunny and clear.

Later that night, Chris and I walked a block up our hill to see an unobscured, moonlit panorama from the tower on Twin Peaks to downtown - not a common view. The air was clear, warm, and still - something not commonly encountered on a summer evening. I'm reminded of the Fourth of July when the wind was so cold, our neighbor's friend put on a fur-lined coat to climb up the hill to see the downtown fireworks which turned out to be completely obscured by clouds and fog.

We hadn't been to the beach once this summer. We've spent most of our July days enjoying the cool grayness of the city. Being from the southeast, heat is something we've trained ourselves to avoid, so the idea of seeking out the sun is a bit of an anathema for us. But Saturday, when the inevitable heat settled into the city, it was easy to convince Chris to go to the beach, where the temperatures were guaranteed to be at least 10 degrees lower. We went to Gray Whale Cove, pictured here on the California Coastal Project site. The beach we were on was right next to this weird thing which is on the edge of a place called Devil's Slide.

Despite the adventures of the day, I think Chris and I had the most fun looking at the Coastal Project site after we got home.

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