People, clothes and neighborhoods

I love the aesthetics of Anthropologie! Yesterday, I got an email featuring a video tour of its new catalogue. If you have not seen it yet, go to:
http://www.anthropologie.com

I know it's all marketing and there's a whole creative team behind it. For now, suspend the judgment that Anthropologie is actually a corporate chain of stores that ironically promotes the feel of a small independent store.

Well, the ad worked for me! I felt a connection and it inspired me to go through the many photos I have taken on streets and farmers' markets that evoke a similar feel and texture of neighborhoods where people still walk to places (and not drive). I love cafes, bookstores, flower stands, farmers' markets...

street musician

a couple of fashionable market shoppers

she looks effortlessly fashionable to me!

a peddler of poems at the farmers' market

Great Finds at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA last Sunday, Sept. 26 2010

All items for $1 on the last day of the sale!

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library 46th Annual Big Book Sale at Fort Mason Center

Great finds and pleasant surprises were a bounty last Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA! Gorgeous and sunny Sunday morning, a big book sale and a farmers' market, all in one place!

I dropped off my daughter for a class at 9:00 am and walked around.  People  were waiting at the entrance of the Festival Pavillion and I didn't know it was a big deal until I saw a long line forming. So, I joined in. I chatted with other folks and learned that shopping carts were limited, plus the fact that early birds get the first dibs on the $1 bargains.