Ash Wednesday -- February 17, 2026

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday -- February 22, 2022

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday -- March 2, 2022

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday -- February 17, 2021

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has amended the Ash Wednesday rite for COVID. The Holy See has mandated that ashes be sprinkled on the crown of the head instead of traced as a cross on the forehead.

Ash Wednesday -- February 26, 2020

Today is Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday -- February 14, 2018

Today is both Ash Wednesday and Saint Valentine's Day.  This is an odd combination.

Baseball Stories -- February 18, 2015

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Pitchers and catchers report today.  This is the cover of the Spring, 1940 Baseball Stories.  Pitchers don't have high leg kicks like this today because base runners are more likely to steal now than they were then. 

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I went to the Bentley Reserve Building (Old Federal Reserve) for ashes today. 

The Gram-o-phone Suggests Itself -- March 5, 2014

In this ad from the 27-December-1898 San Francisco Call, Sherman. Clay and Company offers a Gramophone.  Sherman. Clay and Company is a piano store founded in San Francisco in 1870, which is going out of business in May this year.  The gramophone was originally the name for devices which played flat records, like Berliner's, instead of Edison-type phonograph cylinders.  Chauncey M Depew was a famous New York corporate attorney who later became a United States Senator. 





Today is Ash Wednesday.  I went to get ashes at the old Federal Reserve Building. 

Happy Birthday, President Washington #4 - February 22, 2012

Our indispensable man.

Today is also Ash Wednesday.  

Ash Wednesday -- March 9, 2011

There was a big crowd at Saint Patrick's today. I wound up with the group in the hall downstairs.

I took the photo of Saint Patrick's on 14-February-2008. I like the look of morning sunlight on bricks.

It's Hard Work Being a Cat #20 - February 25, 2009

I took the photo on 19-February-2009.

Today is Ash Wednesday. There was a full house at Saint Patrick's.

The Hearst Corporation wants to make big cuts at the Chronicle. They are threatening to sell it or close it.

The Giants played their first Cactus League game against the Indians. It's nice having them back in Arizona.