Category Archives: people

stories about people in the park, historic and contemporary

enjoying the music

Posted on September 14, 2010 by fromthethicket
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opera in the park

Posted on September 13, 2010 by fromthethicket

People-watching was as much fun as the music during the 37th annual Opera in the Park yesterday afternoon!  Lying back, bellies full, soaking in the magnificent arias delivered with such verve and polish from the stage, humming along with one … Continue reading →

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science on the living roof

Posted on September 4, 2010 by fromthethicket

When Renzo Piano, the Italian architect, first stood on the roof of the old California Academy of Sciences building and looked around at the surrounding green of the park and the hills beyond, a vivid image of the new building … Continue reading →

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were those trees planted or left there?

Posted on August 30, 2010 by fromthethicket

On a recent afternoon, walking along the fern-lined Redwood Trail of the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, enjoying the musty scent of crushed redwood bark beneath my feet and the transcendental light filtering through the foliage high … Continue reading →

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catch a gopher or a fish?

Posted on August 27, 2010 by fromthethicket

In front of the ornate, Victorian-era Conservatory of Flowers at the eastern end of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Tim is poking the end of a long, black hose into a hole in the grass.  He’s after a lone … Continue reading →

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