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Presidio SF and Flowers (Original Post) Old Crank Apr 2024 OP
I love the SF area Diamond_Dog Apr 2024 #1
Thanks Old Crank Apr 2024 #2
Were the flowers in the wild, and not in the conservatory? (I was thinking Golden Gate Park) usonian Apr 2024 #3
If you call garden beds teh wild Old Crank Apr 2024 #5
Good for you. usonian Apr 2024 #7
These are just wonderful, my dear Old Crank! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2024 #4
Thanks. Old Crank Apr 2024 #6

Diamond_Dog

(34,615 posts)
1. I love the SF area
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 08:02 AM
Apr 2024

Always wanted to come back to visit again but life got in the way. 🙂

Your photos are beautiful!

usonian

(13,784 posts)
3. Were the flowers in the wild, and not in the conservatory? (I was thinking Golden Gate Park)
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 10:27 AM
Apr 2024

Wikipedia says Leucospermum a.k.a. Protea family.

South African. Stunning flowers (I love photographing flowers. Started doing so over 50 years ago.)

Presidio is a fabulous place.

You never know what you'll find there!



Hope the visit relieved your high anxiety. (the take-off of Vertigo)



I offered to take my daughter on a movie tour of San Francisco, but she is not an old movie fan.

I am!

Hope you had a great time.



Old Crank

(4,645 posts)
5. If you call garden beds teh wild
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 11:26 AM
Apr 2024

that is where they were. We were killing some time before dinner. THe light was good and the flowers pretty.
I had to trust my autofocus since my cataracts gave me fits focusing close. They have been fixed now so I will see how they work.

Lots of movies shot in SF. And a couple of TV shows.

usonian

(13,784 posts)
7. Good for you.
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 11:39 AM
Apr 2024

I am so nearsighted that I use the viewfinder with glasses and take the glasses off to use the flat panel.

My old Coolpix had a terrible viewfinder ( new ones are great) so I had to use the flat panel in the bright sun. Chasing hummingbirds feeding on wildflowers. Ouch. The autofocus was my rescue.

I was working in SF when Nash Bridges blew something up in an excavation. On purpose.

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