Lakeside Park Garden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October Return

 1.

 

Supermom

Everyone glad to be here again

 Le chat noir who shouldn't dwell in the garden

an old guy feeds it

 

 

Bumblebee business

Butterfly Crossing sign

Fall flowers

Autumnal apple in the grass

Outside again

after a long stretch indoors

October 2020

2.

Winter in the Park

I only take my mask off when I'm smoking

Winter comes to Lake Merritt

Regrettably the Garden gate is locked again

Yet flowers grow within you and without you

The greater park is a lovely gambol

I generally always reach my epiphany

 Frolic on, Ray Man

17 January 2021

3.

 Spring Indicia

Engulphed

Youth restored

The wise old guy occupies his smoke spot bench

 

Myriad wonders to behold

 

 

 

 

New flowers reach out for me

in solidarity with the worker bee

Elephantine fronds beckon

 

The California Poppy crosses the landscape 

 

 

 

 

Incarnadine succulents spring to life

The spiral universe unfurls

 

Blue-green fingers, I feel you

 

 

 

22 February 2021

4. 

Demand Spring

Get out of jail free

 

Fine male mallard looking good

 

Seems to have something on his mind

 

The path not taken

Locked out of the Edenic garden once more

 

The creatures are restive this time of year

 with that same thing in mind:

 the extension of life

The web of life

The efflorescence of life

The ageless tree of life

20 March 2021

The Flaneur's more recent visits in Spring 

will feature here in new posts in the near future

Photo-Journal of a Plague Year, Chapter one

 

 

Strange days indeed

A sighting 

a dog-walker in the empty chasms

Nightlife is over

OPD gone to the mattresses 

it's every gang for itself

White is the ghostliest shade

The thirteenth floor 

it's everywhere nowadays

 

A cruise ship quarantined at the Port

Chinatown blues

In a deserted city there's plenty of time for thinking

One asks himself every day

Routine and widespread

While the super-rich have gotten super-richer

Not unnoticed

not entirely unexpected

Civilization under wraps

The California Starlight Express has already gone

 Sundown on the Union

Once-bustling BART stations

Trains remained sparse and socially distant

Then in September 

the wildfires came

June-September 2020