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music 2010, Photo of the day, the frenchie

Photo del día: she’s got a ticket to ride

November 30, 2010 6 Comments
she's got a ticket to ride
but Frenchie don’t care.
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Stockton at Ellis, Downtown.
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I Live here: SF | Exhibit & Opening photos

November 30, 2010 4 Comments

it's all in the details
Where did November go?! It started with a massive baseball-winning Giant party, and now we are at the last day of the chrysanthemum month. Here is the much promised post for the I live here SF: Opening, which took place at the beginning of November 5th. (and a got many city events coming
— but seriosuly, October and November… two nautty fast fun months!!)

Opening reception, Friday Nov. 5th at SOMArts
silvy and her magic poems
silvy and her magic poems
flickerverse
friends of the interwebs
say cheese
with Mike and the always fabulous Wardell
ILHSF
Stories
collage
photography is boring
sign of the times
I Live Here:SF
We live here

Julie and I connected reading each other’s blogs quite sometime ago. She photographed me sometime in 2009, and we had such a good time roaming through some of the hills and places with our precious beautiful tools. Julie had a super cool camera with a lens she had checked out or borrowed, and me with my bike. That morning we met for early coffee and the texture and lighting in the skies were wicked cool, as it had just stopped pouring. It has been one of my most fun mornings with a wonderful local creative woman. I love what you do Julie!! 

Julie y yo
Julie y yo
oh HAI
I was so stoked and excited to see the all of the photographs, up close and full of color.
Here is a photo of a very happy me (taken by Alex, thx!) in front of my photo at the Lyon steps =)

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I was very happy and quite flattered to be part of the Discussion Panel which took place a couple of weeks ago, rain and all. I posted it not too long ago, right before the Thanksgiving break [link]
Here my bloggie friend Amber, sent me a Diptych piece from it with 2 of the posted photos -so nice, ♥thanks!!

And well, and tonight is the closing reception —  so don’t miss it!

Tuesday, November 30: Closing Night Reception
5-7pm
If you couldn’t make it for the opening night, or just couldn’t get enough… come for one last visit to the wonderful collection of images from the I Live Here:SF project in the main gallery. Silvi Alcivar of The Poetry Store will be on site to create custom poems our own indoor 30-Stockton Muni bus shelter. via ilivehereSF»
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Dads on Wheels: thank you!!

November 30, 2010 1 Comment
Dads on Wheels: thank you!!

Many thanks to all the fantastic dads for participating in yet another super fun and successful collaboration series and to our readers.
See all the previous posts here: featured dads
and the ones over at BikeNOPA, which thank you post -collage included!- from my collaborating partner over in bikeNOPA: check out Michael’s closing series post here [link] =)
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Our previous kick-off series, was the very popular and a beloved local favorite Women Who Bike
♥Stay tuned and happy riding everyone!!

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Knit to knit you

November 29, 2010 12 Comments
scenic knit 

The motivation for returning to work after the Thanksgiving break is low. The belly is way too happy and I am all for finding any possible distractions on my various routes to work, caffeine being the main big crutial distraction. 

I have come across these adorable findings all over town. The knit bombers, knit invasion and whatever they are called, I like them a lot. 

My pretty bloggie-friend over in New York Jennine found some super wacky pink-red sweaters, I am very likely to wear myself (the-coveted link) and my buddy Keoki shared a link Berkeley’s yarn bomber “the Russian” (berkeleyside link). I am liking this movement of knitted pieces around the interweb, and even better to see them upclose. I’m sure our bikeys love it!

cozy
knit to knit you
Cozy sweater poles around the Embarcadero
so knitty
blue and bleu
sweater

Have you seen any of these around your neighborhood, or bike routes? They are so cool! =)

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Photo del día: an early morning

November 29, 2010 1 Comment
mi new friend
In good caffeinated company.
farm:table on Post street.
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Feliz happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2010 17 Comments
happy thxgivin!
From the archives – drawing in my 2005 calendar.
Día de gracias
Día de gracias. Frenchie 2010

Now, a few days off with the Mamigrosa. We’ll be roaming around the City, going on walks and drinking lots of coffee.
Will be eating lots on Thursday and chilling.
I am thankful for everything and everyone around me, especially mi madre.

Proud mamigrosa bien happy with the 2 catrinas en el BART station
Proud mamigrosa bien happy with the 2 catrinas en el 16th BART station
Mobile photo of my mom at the Honoring Revolution‘s installation.

I’ll be back to the blogesphere next week.
Happy thanksgiving everyone!!
Besos, bisous +kisses  ♥xxo.meli

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Discussion panels, colorful, rainboots, friends and arepas. It’s raining, ¿y qué!??

November 23, 2010 7 Comments
it's raining. y que?!
Riding in the rain.
Slow, wet.
It sucks. It’s fun.

So wat, right?! Rain has been very temperamental in the last few days.
One minute the sky has super cool cloud patterns, the next it’s raining buckets. I’m into it.

joaniebaby y frenchie

How do you prepare to ride in the rain?
I have contemplated buying a new raincoat for a few years. Last Saturday, I was caught a tad on the non-prepared side, but still managable. My little ‘summer’ wind-water resistant jacket earned lots of respect from me because it dried *super* fast and it kept me dry after riding in what seems a long distance when it is raining buckets. I’m sure it would have started to fail if we rode 4+miles during that time, but after dinner the rain calmed down a bit and the drops didn’t seem as intense. There was also some thunder. By the end of the night, I had almost forgotten we had gotten so wet earlier in the evening, which is a good thing. Anyway, here is how the afternoon began.

quesooooo

Here is la Calitexican and I, this is how we rode, with the exception that I swapped the sweater with my jacket, but that is about it. The red dress is linen-like cotton and it got drenched, but it dried super fast. Tights are great to ride in the rain, the dry out. Also do it quite quickly. And the boots I was wearing, they pretty much put up with poddles, rain and all. I always forget each year if they perform OK in rainy days. I guess they do well. And for rain-bike parking I always tote around a shower cap to cover the saddle, trick learned from our friend Ade.
Melyssa here is rocking some pretty awesome argyle-pattern rain boots. I’ll get a picture of them and her bike once we are not swimming in traffic.

This was this past Saturday, I participated in the I Live Here: SF discussion panel. It is the first panel I have ever participated in and it made me feel very special to be with such wonderful people and their thoughts, things and snippets of life they got to share with us all.
The panel consisted of a number of us covering multiple age groups, interests, ethnicities, neighborhoods and interests. Julie Michelle, the woman behind the awesome myriads of images in these walls, presented each of us with 2-3 well selected questions for each of us, which evoked an answer that could easily turned into a conversational long paragraph. I also wanted to thank mi special amigos crew for going, the weather was quite umpredictable, and no one likes the first few rainy days.
So thank you!

1-2 1-2
1-2 1-2
Justin check the mics. Julie in the far left, began the discussion panel shortly after.
panel begins
The audience.
get your yo-yoing on.
Awesome yo-yo demo included, that’s right. This is yo-yo Joe.
with Donald
After the panel ended, I got to finally meet long-time blog reader Donald of A Photo a Day. Hola! =)

Here is Wardell and I.
We make a great duo because we both ride beautiful machines in their own sense, and we share an affinity for bold-loud-fun fashion, what do you think?! His car (is a she) Star One, is a fantastic piece of art.
Two of us and our two machines.

we make a great duo
Frenchie y Star One
Frenchie y Star One

The exhibit’s closing reception is next Tuesday Nov. 30th from 5-7PM.

Thanks for reading!! Stay colorful + stay dry 

♥xxo.meli

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