battery park.

Battery Park/ Golden Gate Bridge

After a trip to New York, I was able to spend a few days in Lauren’s hometown of San Francisco. It was nice to be back in warm weather and take in some of the sights that Northern California has to offer. I was still in complete tourist mode and wanted to see all of the places I have never been such as Lombard Street, Castro, Chinatown and of course the Golden Gate Bridge. Surprisingly I had never even seen the bridge after all of the times I had been to San Franciso, so this was a main spot on the trip.

            After photographing the bridge we stopped at Battery Park, right next to the bridge, filled with plants many of which are Native Plants to California. We walked the trails and even off of the trails to get some great shots of the local plant life. I ended up so far in the I didn’t even know what type of plants I was surrounded by and when I got out I realized that a sign the read “Poison Oak Keep Out” Fortunately I didn’t get any of the oak on me and I was fine. One of the photo’s I took of a rose, was one of the pictures I ended up using as my Funes submission, just highly manipulated. The trail was long and windy and as we finished up I dreaded the walk back up the stairs to the car.