Walks: Hood, Jewish Home mostly
Distances: 4 miles average
Alfred Stevens (Belgium,1823-1906) Melancholy Poster |
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, ca. 1950 |
Carl Holsøe (Denmark, 1863-1935), Light of Spring (Detail) |
Walks: Hood, Jewish Home mostly
Distances: 4 miles average
Alfred Stevens (Belgium,1823-1906) Melancholy Poster |
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, ca. 1950 |
Carl Holsøe (Denmark, 1863-1935), Light of Spring (Detail) |
Walks: Jewish Home, Hood, AMC Kabuki (Anora)
Diastance: 4 miles daily
See?
Not a pumpkin, not a turkey, not a lovely fall 🍂wreath. No decorations at all, block after block.
San Francisco, at least the San Francisco Ciwt frequents, is notorious for its lack of Christmas Holiday decorations. But usually much time and effort is spent on stately, gorgeous, warm and welcoming Thanksgiving adornments which Ciwt loves to see and maybe add to a CIWT post.
A friend had a guess about this highly unusual dearth: the timing. Many San Franciscans are 'processing' and just aren't ready to celebrate
Walk: Jewish Home, AMC Kabuki
Distance: 4.5 miles
Hugh Grant in Heretic |
So, for reasons unknown the movie Heretic has a 93% critics consensus on Rotten Tomatoes. Not realizing it was one of the many, many horror movies in theaters these days, Ciwt went to it to see Hugh Grant.
And there he was: the same and wonderful hesitations, adorable stumbles over words, beguiling eyelash flutters, winning smile. Wrinkled now, but all that irresistable charm undaunted by age.
Walks: Hood, Jewish Home
Distances: 4 avg
Do you, dear reader? Between Halloween, daylight savings, the election, whatever Ciwt is doing to process the election, moving deliveries and just leading life in general, she seems to have lost all track of what day she's in.
Walks: Hood
Distances: 3 miles
So one moment Ciwt was looking toward her empty dining room and talking to her visiting best friend from D.C.. And the next moment, her dining room looked like this. Filled with EMT's and firemen, all of whom deserve a medal for their quick arrival and total competence.
Her friend had fallen. Badly it turned out at the hospital. In a nanosecond everything was different and awful.
What Ciwt say? She can borrow from Montaigne "Seize the day." Or from Horace who said it decades earlier in Latin, " Carpe Diem." But she'll go with what her friend said several times as she and Ciwt began to let this incomprehensible, unexpected and sad event sink in. "It's random. Things like this, they're random."
PS - Her friend had successful surgery and is now in an outstanding rehabilitation center working tirelessly to recover enough to get on an airplane back to her home, friends, family and dog (who is all those things)in D.C.. Or, as she puts it, getting from A to B.
Mary Cassatt's chateau at Bacheviller's |
Walk: Jewish Home (more later), St. Dominic's Church (more later), Shade Store (more later)
Distances: 2.5 miles
Walk: SF Animal Medical Center for her cats' annual exam
Distance: 2 miles
Halloween is here, and so is the hard part where Ciwt must choose winners of the CIWT Annual Neighborhood Halloween Decorating Contest. Here they are!!!
Whole House |
Whole Yard |
Huge Skeleton |
Small Skeleton |
Vignette |
Best Bird |
Best Prowlers |
Scariest |
Most Authentic
Most Authentic |
Most Like Ciwt as as she bids farewell to the CIWT Annual Neighborhood Halloween Decorating Contest: |
PS: Whole Yard: Saddest
Here Ciwt needs to take a moment for a fond farewell to a former Whole House winner. It is directly across from the Dragon Teaching Whole House winner, and Ciwt was looking forward to seeing its decorations this year.