San Francisco Victorians

Rebecca and Penelope met us after the Art Deco walk--they had been at the MOMA--and transported us to the start of the Victorians walk, sort of on the edge of Fillmore.

So we have long been big fans of San Francisco's City
Guides, a major program of the San Francisco
Public Library; of course, we're big fans of just about
anything libraries do; but this one is special, and especially
good; more than sixty people turned out for this free
Sunday afternoon tour of one of The City's many
Victorian neighborhoods

Beautiful old Eucalypti at the meeting point,
Bush and Octavia

Eucalyptus flowers; it's spring here, the camellias going
crazy

California's smallest park...National Black History Month,
our guide observed...

Victorians; OK, I am not really into Victorians; on the plus
side, they had indoor plumbing; on the minus, they were
ridiculously ornamented, dark, overly large, expensive to
heat, highly flammable...

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Artsy-fartsy view

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Wait a second...how did this get into a
Victorian neighborhood?!

Another Victorian beauty

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