Foggy Summer

In my blog post on the late arrival of a true summer to San Francisco Bay Area, I showed a few sparklingly lovely summer pictures. However, if people ever wondered what a foggy Bay Area summer looks like, I have below photos to demonstrate:

Finally Summer Arrived in San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area is a cool oasis in summer, even too cold.  A famous statement attributed to the wit Mark Twain was that the coldest winter he ever had was the summer in San Francisco.

Well, it is rather cold in summer, because human beings condition ourselves for the hot weather in months of July and August but we had was foggy days after foggy days.

In late September, suddenly, it warmed up and finally summer arrived, sparklingly:













PS: a confession: These pictures were taken in mid-August. We did have beautiful summer days in real summer time, but truly, they were rare.

Brilliant Sunset

One evening, I was enchanted by a pink glow on my off-white kitchen door and it was a lovely setting sun beam.  In the back yard, I was able to see even more wonderful sight.









A day later, the sunset was even more lovely, with darkened hue and more reddish glow.















Glorious summer.

"Escape Into Summer" - July Theme Exhibit at Artist-Xchange Gallery

San Francisco's Artist-Xchange Gallery is presenting a theme show in July - "Escape to Summer". Two paintings of mine are to be included in the exhibit.


Rape Fields
Oil on Canvas
27" x 27"


Bean Hollow
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"

The opening is on July 9, Friday, 7-10 pm.

Gallery locations and regular hours are:

Artist-Xchange Gallery
3169 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415)-864-1490

Mon-Sun: 1pm - 7pm

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