The water beyond the right field wall of the SF Giants (baseball) AT & T Park is unofficially called McCovey Cove. This section of the San Francisco Bay is officially known as China Basin.
The term was coined for the famous SF first baseman Hall of Famer Willie McCovey who played for the Giants from 1959 – 1973 and from 1977 – 1980.
Beyond the wall is this public promenade where people can watch Giants games for free, well three innings per batch of viewers. Then the guards will ask you to give way to other fans.
On game days, McCovey Cove is filled with kayaks, boats, and floaters. They carry fishnets hoping to catch a “splash hit” – a home run that ends in water.
Unfortunately, the Giants (88-74) did not win the division. They were in the hunt for the wild card slot for a while there, but I guess they lost some steam. It seemed like forever when they had played in October. May be I should follow them again avidly as I had a few years ago.
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Since 1974, The Merchants, Restaurants, and Professionals, as well as the twin cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll, the East Bay’s largest street festival! I have tried to attend every year since I first heard of this festival. After all, it’s 26 blocks of fun, entertainment, food, and lots of people watching. I’ll show you what I saw.
There were foods!
Lots of music. Every block features a different type of music.
Interesting exhibit. I want this car!!!!
There were dancing on the streets, and belly dancing on the stage.
Belly dancers with hair action too.
And I saw this booth. It’s owned by a fellow blogger, Louis, who blogs
This is Solano Avenue. It’s filled with great restaurants and shops, extremely difficult to find parking, but always a great place to visit. This was the weekend when we had some rain here in the Bay Area. This shot was taken just before the sky opened up.
Early this year I went to Vegas and had a short vacation. I thought I’d share with you the “water” I saw while there. 
I was quite surprised to see the winter-like weather on Labor Day, although foggy/misty day was not unexpected. I was very worried that the out of towner (in brown) would be disappointed because of this very thick fog. As we were walking towards the lighthouse, the coast was covered in fog. I was talking about the beautiful waves and all she can see was fog.
But she flew coast to coast to see the lighthouse and despite the heavy fog, there were a lot of people including some elderly visitors braving the cold strong breeze and thick fog, she went down to take a closer look and snap some photos. I was happy to see the fog lift after 30 minutes. As you can see the fog has thinned down.
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It was a hot August day with temps in the 90s but the breeze made the hot and dry temp bearable. We came on Saturday, which we found out was wrong timing as the bbq contest was happening the next day. Therefore we did not even have a taste of pulled pork sandwich.
Instead, we decided to sample different varieties of tomatoes. It was after all a tomato festival, so why not taste some tomatoes, right? We paid 2 bucks per head and entered a huge tent where volunteers like her give out samples. She also tells you what you are tasting, etc, etc.
So, which one has the best cyber taste fellow tasters? Personally, the one I really love wasn’t pictured here. I had some brain freeze as I forgot to snap a photo of the small pink tomato variety called Juliette. Yes, we brought some tomatoes home. They are after all grown in this valley.