The Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon

This is the ticket office.


This is their Globe.

Ashland is very beautiful and this is a very comprehensive emersion in Shakespeare.

The rest of San Francisco......

These shots are taken from the Top of the Mark. In times gone by, this was the place to go to have a drink and be high up and take shots of the city. But those times are gone. This place has lost its luster. It is just an old gal that needs to be refurbished. Be warned!!! You can't get a cocktail before 5 and they don't even give you a plate of peanuts, even tho the drinks are very dear. So screw the Top of the Mark. Too bad.

Alcatraz, etc.

I don't know whose idea it was to go to Alcatraz, but, in any event, we booked the tickets and on a rainy morning here we were on the way with a boatload of people from all over the world. PR agents, you can do anything. Here is "the rock."


The main cellblock, etc.

The view of the mainland by the inmates.

Al Capone was here, etc.

After we left Alcatraz, we had lunch on Pier 39 and observed the seals. They are definitely hanging out.

Yerba Buena & The Steins Collect

This is a shot of the sign outside of the SF Museum of Modern Art where they were featuring an exhibition entitled "The Steins Collect." It was about a family named Stein who lived in SF but who moved to Paris around 1904 and began collecting Picasso and Matisse. It was an amazing group of paintings and we're glad we got to see it.


Right across the street from the SFMOMA is Yerba Buena which is SF's convention center. This structure encompasses an entire city block and it's a great park and water fountain system with a restaurant at the top. Very nice.

Shots of San Francisco

Approaching the Ferry Building.


Inside the Ferry Building. It took me 2 days to solve the mystery but I now know that this part of San Francisco was created after the 1989 earthquack when the Embarcadero freeway was demolished. In its place they created a huge tourist attraction, part of which is the Ferry Building. We went there on Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend and the crush of people was overwhelming. It's a huge building with all kinds of wonderful food shops from pastries to candies to fruit, everything.


Walker told us not to miss this restaurant which is also in the Ferry Building. It's impossible to get a reservation at this place over the phone but if you are there in person they will give you one.

A very nice restaurant.

Another shot of the many shops.

Water, water everywhere.

Legon of Honour Museum

Shades of the Louvre. Their own skylight courtyard.

Rodin's Three Graces. There's a lot of Rodin here.

View from the steps of the museum.

This is the courtyard.

Another shot beyond The Thinker.

Another shot of the view from the front steps.

DeYoung Museum

I copied this dress. It was hard for me to part with it. The docent gave an excellent presentation about how Balenciaga was influenced by his Spanish Catholic youth.

There was a special Balenciaga Exhibition. It took me back. Look at this pooch back dress. I copied all of these creations with my Singer sewing machine. No wonder at a garage sale someone asked "why do you have all of these costumes?" Oh, well.

Overview of the layout.

Close up of the Arch.

View from the 9th Floor Tower in the DeYoung

I'm sure the architect meant this stairway to convey this illusion.

In the distance the new Science Center designed by Renzo Piano. This is a 98% green building.

This fountain is on the way to the museum. The Tower is in the distance.
The Golden Gate Park Map.