Bird on a Wire

Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Leonard Cohen

passingcitizen on Sabbatical ...

Postcards from San Francisco

Dogs & The City

Photos • Alex
Precita Park

The Trumpet Player

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Postcard from Sacramento

cityzen

"Tent City."

SACRAMENTO
A few miles from the state Capitol, on a pasture of land bounded by a railroad track and the tranquil American River, a large cluster of homeless men and women has settled in what's been dubbed "Tent City." With perhaps hundreds of makeshift tents, no running water or bathrooms, and trash strewed everywhere, the encampment conjures up images of Third World living in America.

La Kafetera Presenta:

En Defensa del Transantiago by Kronos

Photo • Alex

San Francisco Bus System
www.lakafeterados.blogspot.com

"En Estados Unidos, por ejemplo, en promedio en el año 2006, los ingresos por tarifas cubrieron sólo el 38% de los costos operacionales de los sistemas de transporte público y la diferencia fue financiada con diversos susidios locales o federales." Kronos

What’s Happening To Newspapers?

Photo • Cl

• The Rocky Mountain News, one of Denver’s two daily newspapers, shut down completely.

• The Journal Register Co., owner of the New Haven Register in Connecticut and 19 other newspapers, filed for bankruptcy.

• The Hearst Co., owner of the San Francisco Chronicle, announced that if it doesn’t find a buyer, it will shut down that city’s only daily newspaper.

• The Philadelphia Newspapers Co., owner of both Philadelphia papers, the Inquirer and the Daily News, filed for bankruptcy.

• The Washington Post Co., whose newspaper of the same name, and its stable-mate, Newsweek magazine, announced that its fourth quarter profit plunged 77%. (This is the company whose largest outside stockholder is the fabled Warren Buffet.)

• Gannett Co., owner of our Palladium-Item and Indianapolis Star among about 90 other daily newspapers, slashed its quarterly dividend by 90% to save $325-million a year! And this came after a previous announcement (as some of your friends may have told you) all Gannett employees were given a one-week “holiday” without pay to save cash. (Strangely, I don’t remember reading anything about any of this in either the P-I or Star.)

All in one week!

-Read more on: "thegraphiconline."

Postcards from San Mateo

cityzen

Waiting for Spring

Garden Bridge

Photos • Alex
Japanese Tea Garden
(San Mateo-Ca)

Postcards from Utah

Photo • Mo
VIA AIR MAIL

All Photos • Alex
The Great Saltair
(This picture is dedicated to Camille)

A Walk in The Park
(Thanks Gabe for the Nikon on this one)

The Great Salt Lake

Last Train to California

Happy Chinese New Year !

YEAR OF THE OX
(My Year)

San Francisco Chinatown

The Chinese New Year is celebrated as the symbol of spring's celebration. In fact in China the Chinese New Year is still called the Spring festival.

All Photos • Alex

From San Francisco to Ushuaia, Argentina...

Follow Marc & Indira from San Francisco to Ushuaia, Argentina...
on Bicycles !

*Ushuaia
Capital of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego and the southernmost city in the world.

Photos • Marc

"This first two weeks had been adjusting to what will be a year or more...my new home and my new dreams... I had always love traveling, but I have to say, this is a very different way, never went through my mind until I met Marc." Indira.

Photo • Monica
Marc, Alex and Indira
(SF, December 2008)

www.bicyclesdiary.blogspot.com

*Photofile: Wikipedia