Brown Bag Dating

A truly unique idea that I propose be taken to the world of online dating.

No profile pictures, no "body type" check boxes. Let's see how many of us are really interested "in the person" not the package.

I suppose there could be brown paper bodybags covering everything. Maybe you could decorate or color the surfaces with your best qualities or inscribe with favorite quotations.

Perhaps just a head bag would be sufficient. I mean I would date the woman below, as long as she was open-minded, liberal and made me laugh.

Oh, she can't be allergic to cats or sarcasm.

And a sense of humor would be good.

Too bad she smokes. We could have been so happy.

Golden Nostalgia

I took this photograph of the setting sun behind the Golden Gate Bridge two years ago this week.

The sun is progressing on its northward path, setting behind the bridge for several days this week.

Fortunately for our drought conditions this week has been overcast and wet. However, no opportunities for a Bridge + Sunset snapshot, the evening overcast blotted out the bridge view.

My time here at the Berkeley Townhouse, with the beautiful panorama, is coming to an end after five years. Time to move on. Regrets I'll have a few, including not being able to lift my head from this screen and see San Francisco Bay in a kaleidoscope of weather, light and color.

Here are a few more shots from my window on the Bay.