Rose, my wife

Our Wedding Day

Hale-Bopp

Birth Plan

Weaning Isaac

Toilet-Training Isaac

Bunk Bed

Omi Marga

Dziadziu, my Dad

Felicia, my sister

Our Cottage

Waller Street

18th Street

pets

more pets

From 1996 to 1998 my (future) wife and I lived west of the Castro, on 18th Street. This was the period just before we got married and later bought our first home.

This is a view of our bedroom, the one room which we fully utilized as a living space. (It was a huge flat, but the front was cooler and darker than the south-facing bedroom which overlooked the garden.) At left is the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass door that leads to the wooden balcony.

Walk onto the balcony and this is the panoramic view. We're in the lee of one of the mountains that make up Twin Peaks, on the other side of which is the West Portal neighborhood.

Looking down from the balcony I see the cats playing on the weathered wooden platform in the sun-drenched back garden. Those glass thingies are two or three of my aquariums, drying in the sun after (seemingly) getting contaminated. (I lost a lot of fish.)

It was while we lived here that we visited the indoor rock climbing gym at Mission Cliffs. Here's Rose,Dad, and my sister Felicia.