San Francisco Chronicle culture critic. Spends too much time in the archive. Total SF co-founder. S.F. 🌁 Oakland 🌳 Alameda ⚓️
Peter Hartlaub
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Grew up across the street from a grove of these and they were an absolute menace. My mom was constantly writing City Hall to trim them. One finally destroyed a house.
Also made a huge mess.
I hate eucalyptus trees. Wish we could snap our fingers and replace them all with Monterey cypress.
I loved writing this, and learning how elementary school teacher "Baylands Lucy" hounded City Council meetings & saved the Bay Area's best bird-watching marsh.
But check this out for the @jachristian.bsky.social photos. They're sooooo lovely.
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School teacher Lucy Evans and her documents digging single-handedly saved the parkland around San Francisquito Creek, but of course they still named it after the son of a railroad baron who died a half century earlier.
🙄😡
Nesting swallows, snaking waterways, low-flying planes, great egrets and stringy, orange, parasitic plants. Baylands Nature Preserve has something for everyone.
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Honored in today’s column to introduce new generations to “Baylands Lucy,” a Palo Alto elementary school teacher who led the drive to protect 1,940 acres of marshland.
Filled her home with legal documents and meeting minutes. Drove City Council members crazy.
Absolute legend.
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I loved writing this, and learning how elementary school teacher "Baylands Lucy" hounded City Council meetings & saved the Bay Area's best bird-watching marsh.
But check this out for the @jachristian.bsky.social photos. They're sooooo lovely.
Gift link: 🎁 📸 🦆 💯
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Respect to the Valkyries.
Calls leaned toward Lynx (WTF with the Salaun technical?) the Valks played great D on the road and it came down to the final shot.
Love this team.
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(Actually this dog seems a little nicer might wait & see how it plays out.)
This is not the same dog.
The dog groomer definitely switched pups on us. Can’t believe he thought he’d get away with it.
