Tour de California - Stage 1

On Monday's stage 1 of the Tour de California pro bike racers climb up Highway 1, near Muir Woods, after departing Sausalito, on their way towards Stinson Beach and 96 miles up the coast before they turned east and finished the first day's race in Santa Rosa.

Tour of California rolls through North Bay -- San Francisco Chronicle.

Sunset ... heavy sigh

I walked by the window on Valentines Day evening, then stopped in my tracks as the color-saturated sky caught me. Then the additional vibrant color of the building across the street illuminated in orange-yellow by the street lamp. heavy sigh ... OK, I'm a sucker for s beautiful sunset. Call me a romantic.

Kaiser Half Pre-Race

Suzanne in high spirits before heading out into the rain to run the Kaiser-Permanente Half Marathon thru Golden Gate Park and out on the Great Highway.