Back In SF Doing Best Job In The World

We get up early to help get our grandkids ready for pre-school.  Then we jump on the bus with them and get them there.  Today we went on a field trip with the youngest to the de Young museum.  What a delight to help shepherd a line of little ducklings down the street, onto the bus, then back down the street to a path in Golden Gate Park.

We got a quick lunch on Clement where it's one Chinese restaurant after another.  Then back to the museum for ourselves - it was a free day.  We decided that the Monet exhibit was more than we needed to pay, since we'd gotten a good dose two years ago in Paris.

Back home for a quick name, then back on the bus to pick them up again.  Here are some pics.  (The family kid pics are not allowed here, so everything else.)

We didn't know it was there til we walked by it.  The Internet Archive website says this (in part):

"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 450+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages."

My grandson had told me that if we go to the de Young museum that we should go across the plaza to see the electric dinosaurs at the Cal Academy.  

We just looked in from the other side of the fence.  The T-Rex moves slowly, but realistically and makes lots of menacing noises.

Before we got to the museum the ducklings stopped near this rock to have snacks.  What I found significant was that this memorial to WWI (yes I) dead, said on top:  "In Memory of Our Sons and Daughters."  Yes, 'and Daughters" for WWI.  WWI was 100 years ago!





This is outside at the de Young museum.  From the inside, the panel is just a clear window.

The description reads:

"Unidentified artist
A Peyote Vision of our Grandfather Fire,
ca. 1950
Mexico, Michoacan, Wixáritari (Huichol)
Yarn, adhesive, and board"

This is a Frank Stella

 "Honda Syoryu (b. 1951)
Aurora, 2006
Madake, rattan"

"Mother Nature
2019"