Simple Views from the San Francisco Bay

Part of the Bay Bridge

This is a short one. Just wanted to show a couple views of the S.F. Bay that I took with my phone:

The Golden Gate Bridge in the distance

AT&T Park

Part of the skyline of San Francisco

Another view of part of the Bay Bridge

A sailboat on the Bay

The Bay

Welcome to Mision San Francisco de Asis or Mission Dolores

The front of Mision San Francisco de Asis

The marker

Living in California and going to school here, you learn about the California Missions that the Spanish set up in the late 18th century. Mision San Francisco de Asis was the sixth to be established under the direction of Father Junipero Serra. Five days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Father Francisco Palou celebrated the first Mass under a makeshift shelter and the City of Saint Francis had its official beginning on June 29, 1776:

Inside the Mission Chapel

The Alter

Statues inside the Chapel

More statues

Stained Glass

The Mission is the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. They also have some artifacts from back in the day:

18th Century Chair

18th Century Brass Crucfix

And the art work:

Cast Stone Sculpture of Father Junipero Sierra-1909

Ceramic Mural-Guillermo Granizo

I love this mural

One thing about the Missions are the cemeteries. I always like walking around and looking around and thinking about how the people lived back in the day:

A partial view of the cemetery

A Little Peek at Angel Island

Recently I had an amazing experience. I got in a kayak and paddled my little fat butt to Angel Island State Park from Sausalito. It is a three mile trip, but it was cool. I am waiting for a person to send me the pics of me paddling. I will share those.

But anyway, Angel Island is a great and beautiful place. It is the largest island in the San Francisco Bay. One side of the island was an Army Base from 1863
to 1947 when it was decommissioned it, then a Nike Missile Base was constructed there in the 50's and then decommissioned that in 1962. The other side of the island was considered "The Ellis Island" of the West Coast as it processed one million Asian immigrants between 1910 and 1940.

I was only the Army Base side and I really want to see the other side of the base. Sorry my pics are not great as I only had my IPHONE and the weather was really cloudy:

The view from where we were staying

The Captain's House

I guess this was a sign to get people to join for the Union cause during the Civil War

The old Army hosptial

The old church and schoolhouse

Deer

Deer grazing

This is where there was two five-inch wire-wound guns. They were removed in 1915.

The Golden Gate Bridge in the fog from Angel Island

"The Rock" in the foreground with the skyline of San Francisco behind it.

A's-Mariners 6-16-13

This is very late, but I guess it comes with working 15 or so straight days. But anyway here is a look at the Father Day's A's game I attended:

The A's Bartolo Colon pitching

An A's Rally Monkey

The Mariners Oliver Perez

The Mariners Hisashi Iwakuma warming up

The A's Brandon Moss leading off first

Seattle's Michael Morse swinging at a pitch

It was a great Father's Day and a great game as the A's won 10-2. Plus there was a really cool give-a-away:

Grant Balfour Ragin Gnome

Balfour was nice enough to sign my box

In Honor of the British Open-Some Golf Autographs

As I was going through my box I noticed a lot of golf autographs I had. In honor of the third and oldest major of the year, I thought it was time to share the golf autographs of major winners I have:

Hale Irwin

Mark O'Meara

Justin Leonard

Nick Faldo

Billy Casper

Justin Rose

Now a higher up:

Phil Mickelson

Johnny Miller

Tom Waston

Lee Trevino

And now the big three. In the 60's and 70's there were the big three:

Gary Player

Arnold Plamer

The Golden Bear: Jack Nicklaus