If you're family, you'll appreciate this post.
What you're looking at is the Queen Wilhelmina Windmill on the very western edge of Golden Gate Park. It's a century-old structure and to this day serves a purpose. Housed inside this somewhat out-of-place symbol for everything Dutch is a pumping station that irrigates Golden Gate Park. There are tulips everywhere and just beyond the windmill is the Pacific Ocean.
This morning I ran the expanse of GGP - from eastern end, just two blocks from home (see previous entry for map), to the ocean. It's a hilly 3-mile run, but time passes quickly as you inspect towering cyprus and evergreens. And when you hit the coast, you remember why you packed your entire home, moved - all inside a three-week window.
This is what it looks like from the beach.
Nathan and I are planning a bike ride/picnic tomorrow - he hasn't seen it yet.
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