Garden from below

Garden from inside the garden

Interesting building from the garden

I used to sometimes have lunch in this garden when I was working downtown.

A sundial that's in the shade.

Old Crcker Bank building, now Wells Fargo

Any visit to downtown would be incomplete without a Frank Chu sighting.

Statue inside the City Bank plaza

The tour used to show off some of the architecutre & history inside this building - no more after 9/11

The Very Thing Building (130 Bush) was here BEFORE the larger structures.

Another uninviting plaza...I still used to have lunch here, sometimes. The plaza is adjacent to a building lobby with an art gallery that is now closed to the public, because of 9/11.

Check out the way old marble door frames.

The frames came from Greece...

...hundreds of years ago, if you can read the plaque. The security guard didn't like me taking pictures.

Pacific Stock Exchange...now what happens to this building now that trading has gone all electronic?

Cracks left from the 1906 Earthquake. The building, made of stone, survived the fire.

The public gardens are supposed to have these oh-so-easy-to-find plaques letting people know that there is a public space in this building

Many of the gardens are empty because no one knows about them.

"Spooks on the roof"

Another part of the tour that was cut short because of 9/11.

Interesting contrast...garden, fountain, laundry & old brick building

More 'Spooks on the roof'

One of my fave sculptures in San Francisco - the children running in the Redwoods garden underneath the Transamerica Pyramid