auspicious autumn...

autumn signals a lot of things. back to school. football season. halloween. harvest time. fall stirs in me a feeling that pretty much anything is possible. i suppose it is left over from all those first days of school, when what the new year would bring was still left to the imagination. and in most places, fall also means better weather. although we don't ever have really bad weather here in the bay area (at least not if you've ever lived on the east coast), fall is the time that the fog lifts and we get some of the most amazingly clear blue sky days possible. i live a block away from one of the most photographed places in san francisco, but instead of avoiding it, i walk up the hill from time to time looking for something new to shoot, some new way to see it. here's today's shot, in celebration of the first day of fall.