Morning garden check 🌸 lots of things are blooming! Fava bean flowers look like little orchids, the first garbanzo beans have popped, broccoli is coming to a head nicely and this blackberry blossom is the cutest thing.

Seeing my old job replaced by AI is surreal. Old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting has been replaced by fake people who’ve never set foot in any of the neighborhoods they write about — because they don’t have feet. My latest for San Francisco Chronicle tinyurl.com/3cabc35h

I took my favorite Benji picture a year ago today.

When the fog is low and you can see the orange glow from the Port of Oakland, those are my northern lights.

Me in the very bright, just a little too southern Bay Area 😡

Great photos as always from Jessica Christian from the cacophonous UC Berkeley Law school commencement ceremony we covered Friday

More from today's UC Berkeley Law School commencement where pro-Palestine protests broke out among graduates and in the crowd. Read Joe Garofoli's story on San Francisco Chronicle bit.ly/3UtU4jW

I'm bediting aka editing in bed because I'm sick as a dog.

Two more pro-Palestine demonstrations have erupted during the UC Berkeley Law School commencement at the Greek Theater. Security has been told not to move in, protesters continue to chant. “Disclose, Divest, we will not stop we will not rest” San Francisco Chronicle

UC Berkeley Law School graduates wear t-shirts that read “UC DIVEST” as a form of protest during the UC Berkeley Law School commencement at the Greek Theater San Francisco Chronicle

This is the most talked about Chronicle newsroom food discussion since they removed the basement vending machine that served It’s Its.

If you're currently suffering in a sweltering apartment, the good news is tomorrow will be even hotter!!

Watering the garden at 8:30 like it’s a hot August night. We are so back.

Spent the day with Margins Wine's Megan Bell for this story by Esther Mobley on the state of the California wine industry. Give it a read on San Francisco Chronicle bit.ly/3WtyoHu

I don’t know what this means but I’m going for it.

We love seeing our history out-and-about. Thank you, Jessica, for sharing!

'The $55 billion California wine industry is, like the wine industry worldwide, experiencing an unprecedented downturn. No sector is immune — not the luxury tier, not the conglomerates, not the upstart natural wines.'

By Esther Mobley
📷 Jessica Christian sfchronicle.com/food/wine/arti…

This building on Clement Street caught my eye today, so I had to look up the history. Thanks Western Neighborhoods Project and OpenSFHistory! bit.ly/3JRBM7v

I’m checking off what might be #1 on my San Francisco photo bucket list next week 👀

This promo really has all my faves in it!