The pickle fork at sunset...

Coming back from Davis, I caught this pick driving across the Bay Bridge.

My 5th pickle fork pic...

This is my fifth entry with Sutro Tower (aka, the pickle fork). This one is taken from Portola avenue, just west of Twin Peaks.

Another view of Sutro ...

The same tower as yesterday, seen from Mt. Davidson. Maybe I'll do a whole week of these. I doubt it though.

Sutro from a distance

Remember back on February 21st when I explained about Sutro Tower -- how you can see it from just about anywhere in the bay area?

Well here it is (poking up from the marine layer) from Oyster Point Marina in South San Francisco (just down from where I work). This is about 15 miles from the tower itself.

Sutro Tower from Shura's house

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Looking east from Shura's house. As I said before, you can see this thing from just about anywhere in the city.

Note the power lines. In that part of the city, there are no buried lines, so there is always wires overhead. Makes it hard to get a really good shot, but they add character anyway.

The other San Francisco landmark ...

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Look at a picture of Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Fisherman's Wharf sign, or the Transamerica tower and you immediately think "San Francisco". Some landmarks are known by everyone.

This picture is of another kind of landmark. Show a picture of Sutro Tower (aka "The Pickle Fork") to anyone who ever lived here, and they will immediately recognize it. It is visible from almost anywhere in the city -- you can see it from just about any of the locations mentioned above.

Of course, no one photographs it. No one includes it in their travelogs or their scrapbooks.

This picture was taken from Twin Peaks, a great place to see the city from above the clouds. Several other pictures taken from up there are now up on the Flickr page (seriously -- check out the flickr page -- especially the one of BOB from up there -- I almost used that instead of this one, but I had a better story for this one).