RON HENGGELER

June 21, 2016
Photos from the first days of Summer on the Solstice (with a jaw-dropping sunset sky)

On Sunday Father's Day, Dave and I spent the afternoon walking the trails on the summit of Mt. Tamalpais north of San Francisco. While driving back into the City at sundown, we watched the nearly full moon rising in the sky behind the San Francisco skyline. Upon seeing that, we decided to be in the Marin Headlands the next day on Monday for the Summer Solstice full moon. On Monday, for the first time since June 1967, this year's Solstice Summer brought a Once-in-a-Generation 'Strawberry Moon. The last time these two phenomena occurred together was at the beginning of 1967's Summer of Love, and it won't happen again until 2062. (The strawberry moon was given that name by the Algonquin tribes because it occurs right at the height of the season when strawberries are harvested.) With two hours before Monday's moon rise, we drove the Cozelman Road through the Marin Headlands, into Sausalito, and then to Fort Baker on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. With the sun finally setting, I drove back into the Headlands and set myself up with the camera and tripod at Battery Spencer on the coastal cliffs overlooking the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. As the sun went down, the sky all around became jaw-droppingly, breathtakingly, unbelievably beautiful. What a marvelous light show on the first day of Summer! Here are some of my photos from the two days

The view of San Francisco's City Hall from my window.

Jazz in his box on the ceiling

 

San Francisco from Mt Tamalpais

 

 

 

 

 

The distant profile of Point Reyes seen from the trail near the summit of Mt Tamalpais

The distant Sonoma Coast seen from Mt Tamalpais

 

San Francisco and the Bay Area

San Francisco in the distance, Sausalito in the foreground

The Golden Gate, and Ocean Beach in San Francisco , seen from the summit of Mt Tamalpais

The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge

The shadow of Mt Tamalpais and the San Francisco Bay Area

David on the trail near the summit

 

The moon rise on Sunday evening as seen during our return from Mt Tamalpais

On Monday, Jazz in his box

The Golden Gate Bridge seen from Lincoln Park

 

San Francisco seen from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

The view from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

The towers of the Golden Gate Bridge and the tower of the new Bay Bridge as seen from Hawk Hill in the Marin Headlands

 

 

The distant Lands End in San Francisco as seen from the Cozelman Road in the Marin Headlands

Point Bonita as seen from the Cozelman Road in the Marin Headlands

 

San Francisco as seen from Sausalito

 

Alcatraz as seen from Sausalito

 

 

A view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker

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How can You place

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Rumi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Henry David Thoreau

 

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