Douglas Fir-rederic
@douglasfirtree
Librarian, archivist, antifascist, naturalist, cyclist, Berkeleyan/Mendocinan. Frequent frequenter of unfrequented places. And FUCK TRUMP.
Royal Caribbean cruise ship vs. Olympic sailing qualifying racers, off San Pedro CA. Talk about Goliath and David.
Cruise ship passengers and gantry cranes, Port of LA #SanPedro
A palimpsest of something on the old airfield, & the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge. From Alameda NAS bird refuge on a perfect day of silky bay breezes and chattering, breeding terns (a colony of whom I guard against predation). Gee I love living in the SFBayArea.
A real stunner of site specific art up at the #UCBerkeleyBotanicalGarden: a perfect, monumental pyramid of redwood branches and twigs, catching the afternoon sunlight. Mesmerizing! Part of a show that’s at the Berkeley Art Museum thru November. #BAMPFA #UCBerkeley #Berkeley
Sierra tiger lily, Donner Pass. Springtime along the Sierra crest! #wildflowers
Osprey nesting on the SF Bayshore, El Cerrito, with a #SanFrancisco backdrop.
Humans soaking up the experience of #redwoods in a sun-dappled, midsummer Muir Woods.
Nice cumulonimbus over the northern Coast Range (Mts. Sanhedrin and Hull), from #Ukiah.
The amazing Kitka, in the equally amazing setting of a redwood grove. Exquisite Eastern European a cappella vocals in an acoustically perfect place.
Flame skimmer #dragonfly @ the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. All the water features in this glorious place are loaded with colorful insects during these waning days of spring . @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Seen today, triggering the nostalgia for vintage pickups, an early 70s Courier.
Elk clover umbels resembling fireworks (only better), Muir Woods National Monument.
“Seawalls” (2022). 67th St., Emeryville CA #mural #StreetArt
Muir Woods, last Thursday after the lovely late spring rains came through.
Madonna Inn, SLO. You’re gonna get kitsch, but for $500/nt, the careworn, noisy experience was a major bummer. (Was attending an onsite wedding, even the convenience wasn’t all that great.) Live and learn.
Poster for an appearance by Charlie Chaplin at the Metropole Theatre in Zagreb (from the Zagreb City Museum, n.d.)
Mermaid signage at a candy shop, in the Vienna-like small city of Varazdin, Croatia.
A great rail-trail outside Rovinj, Croatia: the Strika-Ferata on a disused steam train line originally built by the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Beautiful farms, ancient “field churches”, & concluding w/ a cold beverage by the Adriatic Sea
Three geometrically ideal loggia in the Istrian hilltowns of Croatia.