Some pics from my San Francisco morning exercise walk:
- A new-to-me little free library in the shape of its accompanying house (kind of a thing in the Sunset District) at 14th Ave and Quintara (a.k.a. the end of the 6 Parnassus line)
- The accompanying house, a little washed out in the fog, i.e., a typical view around here
- Car parked in a driveway. Yeah, I already reported it to 311; no reason to think they did anything about it, though. Not pictured, not reported: another car parked in a driveway with a "Pro-Environmentalist / Anti-Fascist" window decal; yet another car parked in a driveway with an 🚫Elon sticker.
- Toy dinosaur on the hood of a car in a driveway
- Little Free Library in the shape of its accompanying house (did I mention this is kind of a thing in the Sunset District?) on Lincoln around 30th Ave.
- Chalk art at 20th Ave and Irving: That "Don't Panic / Organize" meme with the fish. Not shown: the probably-more-impressive art next to it which was scuffed by the time I got there.
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