Sketchbook Cabbie

Waiting for the Muir Woods shuttle

Digital Impressions with the iPad Brushes App

 

Sausalito Holy Ghost Festa Parade

 
I was caught in the annual Holy Ghost Festa parade through downtown Sausalito.

The annual celebration was begun in Sausalito in 1887 by early Portuguese immigrants in southern Marin County. The festival honors Queen Isabel of Portugal who in the 14th century fed the poor during a famine.

Nurturing the World

 I’m driving the dude from downtown Sausalito, a little further up the Bridgeway to Le Garage. Matt’s going to have a nice Sunday brunch on the waterfront. Just as I make the turn onto Liberty Ship Way, we both set eyes on the young woman pushing her one-year-old in a stroller. She has copious and well-formed bosoms. “Wow”, I exclaim. I wouldn’t normally do that but for the fact that they are extraordinary and I sense Matt in the back is a comrade and appreciates the female form as I do. “The nice weather brings out the breasts", he says. "Yup", I agree. "That Mom is nurturing the world.” He adds,” It’s a beautiful thing.” I drop Matt at the restaurant. He gives me $20 for a $6 fare. That’s a moment worth savoring, I think.

Vistas at the Sausalito Taxi Stand

Lines of migrating albatros skirt and stir up the surface of the bay.
The colored sails of Islander 34’s lean into the wind funneled through the Golden Gate.
I take in vistas framed through trees on the Bridgeway.
Tourists ride bikes with maps trailing tall orange flags.
But it’s the multicolored peloton that owns the road.
They wander like peregrines and take pictures like sandpipers.
Mission-style porticos, elephant fountains and rows of signs.
The sound of a far off violin playing Stardust for change.
Accents foreign collide with seagull cackle.
Buy a shirt then take off after a visit to the Pay for Parking kiosk.