At Western and Coyle avenues on the far North Side. It was warmer today — we were above the freezing mark — partly because we were under a blanket of overcast all day. Then, just as the sun set, the sky got some color. I went out around the corner from my sister's place to try to get a picture and had to go down Western a little way before I had a view past the street-front buildings to the west. Snow is in the forecast for tomorrow and the next day (Friday and Saturday), though it seems like sort of a non-storm event: continual light snow that may or may not wind up with a few inches on the ground. I'm supposed to fly back to San Francisco on Saturday, so I'm rooting for no big storm until I've escaped.
Sky
So the Friday evening walk to the ferry to meet Kate often–usually–starts with a hike up the west side of Potrero Hill. Once, it was probably a working-class area; the older homes are modest in scale, mostly, and the heights are surrounded by old industrial and warehouse neighborhoods on the edge of the Mission, the south of Market area and (a new one to me) the Dogpatch district on the eastern flank between the hill and the Bay.
Anyway, I go up the west side, usually, and down the north side and then wind my way to the Embarcadero and the ferry slip. The bonus of the walk, which generally takes about an hour,, is everything you see along the way. Tonight, I hit the street just as the sunset color was coming on. I thought, “Ah, it’ll fade by the time I’m up the hill.” But it only got more intense. Above is the view from the upper part of 18th Street, looking down over the Mission. What an evening. End of summer. We’re just a week out from the equinox.
Potrero Hill Sundown
Beautiful summery night here — which would be an odd statement in August almost anyplace else but the Northern California coast. It was warm with a variety of high clouds that were gorgeous as the evening came on. The sight and the evening’s gentleness were enough to make me detour from my usual walk to the 16th and Mission BART station over to the Civic Center Station on Market Street.