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Photo credit: Magnus Lundgren

Trap ahead

Photo credit: Magnus Lundgren

A very big tree

Coastal living at the Brewery Gulch Inn

Brewery Gulch Inn in Mendocino was like a page from the magazine Coastal Living. You feel like you're visiting someone's home as the accommodation included a very nice dinner with lots of vegetables and a big living room like area that you can just hang around in front of the big fireplace.

From San Francisco, we drove on Highway 1, up along the Pacific Ocean for about 2.5 hours. In case you are bringing a helicopter, the website says they're very friendly to those arriving by air too.

The pacific coast

There is something about the Pacific that is so beautiful and endless...

 

Photos taken on my way to Mendoccino.

The blue pacific

Stanford Museum

This exhibit was all by local Bay Area artisits. What a pretty color palette!

Happy 2011!

My sister made ozoni, which is a typical new year food in Japan. It's the best thing ever to stuff yourself with lots of rice cakes and lazy around for the first few days from January 1st...

Happy new year!

Lemon riccotta pancakes

My sister and I made lemon riccotta pancakes for breakfast. The recipe is from Bobby Flay. It was super yummy with a hint of nutmeg too. We made a syrup from lilicoi jam that my sister brought back from Hawaii.


Try it with really good tea on a lazy Sunday. It will really make you happy...

Pizzeria Delfina

Anybody visiting San Francisco should go to the Mission and eat at Pizzeria Delfina or the bakery nextdoor called Tartine Bakery. It's really nice and you get to see the hipster neighbors (who probably all work at Google) and the mural filled neighborhood on the way from the metro station.

The Mural Project in the Mission

My sister and I discovered the Mural Project in the Mission on our way to her favorite pizzera.


I always thought the Mission was a scary neighborhood of San Francisco, but I stand corrected. Once you walk past the countless scary but joyful homeless/hippies who dominate the metro station, walk south on Mission Street towards 18th Street. It's on the left side where the street hits a small passage called Clarion Alley.

Foggy San Francisco

San Francisco was looking like it was floating in the clouds...

SFMOMA's 75th Anniversary

Today, I had the best SFMOMA experience ever. The museum is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and exhibiting their strongest pieces and those with stories that contributed to building the museum.

The first piece I liked was this very happy wall paper of the different phases of the sun.

This one below was a series of shooting the same four women over a period of 25 years. My sister especially liked it, as you could definitely see that these four women had each gone through a different life and aged differently. One woman seemed to especially age fast.

Then there was this piece of everyone emitting thoughts to create this black cloud. I tried to emit one as well but mine didn't show.

Of course, we cannot ignore MJ. This piece intentionally mixed up his right hand and the monkey's right leg, perhaps to show the close connection between the two. I didn't know this was such a famous piece. My sister insisted that she saw it in her textbook from middle school. The background is a separate piece and is not connected to MJ.

I also liked this high heel painting. It is an oil painting. I was surprised how pretty it came out in this photo, despite the dirt and the not so nice state of the foot.

And now a few funny photos...


Paris in the Spring

From the series Parking Lots

I feel this photo series from 1999 of the various parking lots is the most incredibly useless work by Ed Ruscha. I remember seeing this special exhibition somewhere else and reading the comments that the oil dirty parking spots are those being most heavily used - which are usually closer to the building. How truly insightful! And yet, I remember this series well...

Finally, a self portrait off of a golden fish statue.