«Louis» is proud to introduce you to his first guest photographer, "Kawfee Beene". Monsieur Beene captured this sunset from the hills of El Sobrante, north of Chez la Vache. Monsieur Beene is a coffee roaster by profession and photographer and cook by avocation.
dimanche 31 janvier 2010
Guest Photographer: "Kawfee Beene"
«Louis» is proud to introduce you to his first guest photographer, "Kawfee Beene". Monsieur Beene captured this sunset from the hills of El Sobrante, north of Chez la Vache. Monsieur Beene is a coffee roaster by profession and photographer and cook by avocation.
samedi 30 janvier 2010
vendredi 29 janvier 2010
jeudi 28 janvier 2010
Coucher du soleil pluvieux
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The slightly mottled effect of this image is due to rain falling at Chez la Vache while the sun is seen setting through the breaks in the clouds over the Marin hills.
mercredi 27 janvier 2010
mardi 26 janvier 2010
Louis la Vache a été enlevé!
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Follow the other links there to see evidence de plus enlèvements! Will Louis be safely returned? Will this make the cover of National Enquirer? These are the burning questions at this grim hour!
lundi 25 janvier 2010
Your favorite hymns, circa 1700
Dr. Timothy Zerlang, organist and director of music at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco, give a bravura performance of "Your Favorite Hymns, circa 1700" on Sunday 24 January. Showing off St. Mark's Taylor & Boody tracker organ, Dr. Zerlang played music of J.S. Bach, Johann Pachelbel, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Buttstett and others.
The Taylor & Boody organ at St. Mark's is very similar in style to the one J.S. Bach played at St. Thomas Kirche, Leipzig It may be played either with the bellows powered by electricity or as they were in the time of Bach, "pedal power" where someone worked the bellows with their feet. For the first piece Dr. Zerlang played, Buxtehude's Toccata in F Major, the young woman seen here worked the bellows.
The Taylor & Boody organ is a splendid instrument. The company fabricates each piece - and even grows the trees and cures the wood used in the building of the instrument.
...and salutes the organ.
The audience, much larger than is indicated here, had a splendid time. No event in a Lutheran church would be complete without coffee, so coffee and homemade cookies were served after the concert.
Saint Ignatius and the bridge
St. Ignatius church and the Golden Gate Bridge share the limelight, as it were, from this view from Mount Sutro over San Francisco. Even with a tripod, «Louis» still has some camera shake in this shot.
dimanche 24 janvier 2010
Pendillement dans la baie
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Click to enlarge; in the center west of and between Albany Point and Point Isabel, you'll see a boat bobbing in the Bay. Perhaps you've noticed this boat in the many photos «Louis» has posted from this view. The boat never moves. Curious about this, «Louis» asked the owner of a local sailing school if he knew the story. The boat, «Louis», learned is lived on by someone who has found the exact place in the Bay where Alameda, San Francisco, Contra Costa and Marin Counties come together and has dropped anchor at that spot. As the boat pivots around the anchor, the owner gets away from the prohibition of any boat on the Bay staying at anchor in one spot in the Bay for more than 72 hours! Also note the outbound tanker sailing past Tiburon.
samedi 23 janvier 2010
Albany Point
For many years, Albany Point was a dumping ground for construction waste. This dumping was banned in 1984. Since then, nature has slowly been reclaiming the point from the debris. The City of Albany is doing a restoration of part of the Point, as seen in the fenced off area visible in this image.
vendredi 22 janvier 2010
jeudi 21 janvier 2010
A tanker at dawn
At dawn, a tanker slides past Angel Island, bringing oil to one of the refineries in the Bay Area.
mercredi 20 janvier 2010
mardi 19 janvier 2010
lundi 18 janvier 2010
dimanche 17 janvier 2010
samedi 16 janvier 2010
vendredi 15 janvier 2010
La Ville, illuminée par le soleil
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The sun breaks through the fog to illuminate The City.jeudi 14 janvier 2010
The view from Moeser Lane
«Louis» got this view of our iconic bridge from Moeser Lane, in the hills of El Cerrito. "El Cerrito" means "little hill" and refers to Albany Hill.
mercredi 13 janvier 2010
Souffles de coton
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Angel Island and the hills appear to be hiding behind puffs of cotton. Note the lone boat bobbing in the Bay west of and between Albany Point and Point Isabel.
mardi 12 janvier 2010
Brouillard-bas
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Leaving the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge visible, the fog clings close to the Bay and rolls over the hills of Marin.
lundi 11 janvier 2010
dimanche 10 janvier 2010
Serre-livres: Un-zero-zero-un
(le 10 janvier)
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The Zeppelin Eureka flies above the Golden Gate Bridge as two ships traverse the waters under it.
samedi 9 janvier 2010
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; Suspension section
Another view from the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, this time of the suspension bridge section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Unlike the cantilever section seen in yesterday's post, this bridge will not be replaced. Also seen in this image is Sausalito harbor, Alcatraz Island, and (like yesterday) Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands, and Alameda (which is in itself, another island).
vendredi 8 janvier 2010
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; Cantilever section
Seen from the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, is the cantilever section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. A section of this bridge collapsed in the 1989 earthquake. Although the collapsed section was repaired, the decision was made to replace the bridge.Twenty years later, the job still isn't done. "Once upon a time," California was a state where things got done. That is no longer true. The state is paralyzed by political dysfunction. Wrangling by the mayors of Oakland at the time, "the two Browns," Jerry in Oakland and Willie in San Francisco, over the bridge added to the delay in construction and more than doubled the costs. So-called 'environmental groups' and other nay-sayers further added to the delays and costs.
The cantilever section of the bridge ends at Yerba Buena Island. Adjacent to Yerba Buena Island is the man-made Treasure Island, built for the 1939 World's Fair. After the Fair, the island became a base for Pan American's Flying Clippers to the Pacific. In World War II, the island became a Navy base. Admiral Nimitz lived there for a time.
Also visible in this image is Alcatraz Island, Angel Island, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville and other points in the East Bay. A portion of the suspension bridge between Yerba Buena Island and San Francisco is visible in the right side of the image.
jeudi 7 janvier 2010
La fête de l'épiphanie
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St. Mark's Lutheran, San Francisco, marked the Feast of the Epiphany with a service of Lessons and Carols. The lessons were read by the Confirmation class.
The choir, accompanied by two oboes and a cello, presented an Epiphany piece from the German Baroque.
La fête de l'Épiphanie on le 6 janvier is the twelfth and last day of Christmas. The feast marks the visit of the magi to the Christ child as recorded in Matthew's Gospel. (Matthew 2:1-12) In France, l'Épiphanie is celebrated with a meal that is the rival of the Christmas feast or le réveillon of New Year's day. The traditional dessert served at le repas de l'Épiphanie is la galette des rois. La galette consists of two circles of pâte feuilletée filled with frangipane or almond-flavored crème pâtissiere - or a combination of the two.
La galette is both a pastry delight and a fun game of chance. La galette is presented at the table by the host(ess) with a crown on top. The host(ess) has hidden une fève under some portion (other than the center) of the cake. The crown is set aside and la galette is cut and served to the guests. The guest who gets the slice with la fève in it is presented with the crown to wear and thus becomes the Queen or King for the day. It's all great fun and a properly made galette des rois makes a most enjoyable dessert.
La recette est ici.
Related post:
Une autre brève histoire de la galette des Rois
Note for San Francisco Bay Area readers: If you don't want to make your own galette, you can order one from Pâtisserie Philippe, 655 Townsend Street, San Francisco, 94103 ~ 415.558.8016. Les galettes are so popular with Philippe's customers that he offers them all the way to le 31 janvier!
La Ville, revue de la Mount Tamalpais
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We've seen several views of The City from the lower slopes of Mount Tamalpais. Here's another look, taken from just below the fire lookout at the peak. Note the Golden Gate Bridge.
mardi 5 janvier 2010
Chez la Vache vue de la Mount Tamalpais
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Albany Hill, and the towers of the complex housing Chez la Vache along the east shore of San Francisco Bay seem very small when viewed from the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. The mountain in the distance is Mount Diablo. Eyes attuned to East Bay landmarks will also spot the campus of the University of California, Berkeley and the Claremont Hotel. The floating dock in the left of the image is where tankers bringing oil to the Chevron Richmond refinery unload.
lundi 4 janvier 2010
Vaste horizon
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Viewed from the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, we get an inkling of the vastness of the Pacific ocean.
dimanche 3 janvier 2010
Encore les Avenues de San Francisco
Another view of "the Avenues" in San Francisco on our trip to the Marin Headlands and up Mount Tamalpais. As before, the green belt in the center right is Golden Gate Park.
samedi 2 janvier 2010
New Year Fireworks
Le balcon Chez la Vache gives «Louis» et Mme la Vache a splendid view of the fireworks show along The Embarcadero in San Francisco.vendredi 1 janvier 2010
...dedans avec la nouvelle!
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In yesterday's post, we had a freighter outbound to the Pacific, symbolically carrying the old year out. Today, with this view of an incoming freighter on the Pacific taken from the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, symbolizing the arrival of the new year, «Louis» et Mme la Vache wish you une nouvelle année heureuse, a happy New Year!
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