The photo was taken on Monday June 12, 2006.

We drove across the Gate and into the Marin Headlands in the last hour before sunset. From the moment we merged with the swift flow of traffic and headed north across the Golden Gate Bridge, the views surrounding us were fantastic and other-worldly.  Ocean blown summer fog was racing over the costal range and into San Francisco Bay. Its effect on the landscape was pure magic. As we navigated the switchbacks up to Hawk Hill (Battery 129), we were for one moment, in the fog, then under the fog, in the fog again, then on top of the fog. The drive went on like this all the way to Black Sand Beach. A half mile or so later, as we crested the next and final highest hill (near the World War II bunkers that overlook Bonita Cove and Point Bonita) and just before the downward approach to the lighthouse turn off, a vision appeared straight out of a canvas by Caspar David Friedrich. It was the dark silhouette of a man standing all alone in the fog on top of this ethereal world. He was watching the sun go down. Because of this thick fog that was enveloping us, we were able to look directly into the sun, study it, stare at it, ponder it. It was a timeless moment that stood still in the delicate white light of the sun. All breathless.

If you are wondering, who Caspar David Friedrich is, to find out, please visit these web sites.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4782/cdfpeople.htm

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/F/friedrich.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4782/cdfriedrich.htm

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