Cranes 499, 500, 501

midpoint paper cranes

Folded with green and red notepaper. I have just about reached the midpoint of the year without missing one day. I figure if I can make it this far, the next half should be a breeze :)

Cranes 497, 498

transamerica pyramid paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an instruction booklet written in Chinese characters. Posed while picking up my new contact lenses in downtown San Francisco.

Cranes 495, 496

elementary school paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a Money magazine subscription renewal flier. Posed while assisting my wife take down her classroom posters.

cranes 493, 494

101 traffic paper cranes

Folded with a Macy's ad insert mailer for CLINIQUE. Posed on the dash while stuck in stopped-dead traffic on Highway 101 north near the Broadway exit.

Cranes 491, 492

purple flower petal paper cranes

Folded with white note paper and the word "Friday" written on them.

Cranes 489, 490

tree trunk paper cranes

Folded with pieces of red note paper.

Cranes 487, 488

kitty paper cranes

Folded with pieces of green note paper.

Cranes 485, 486

plant paper cranes

Folded with pieces of an expired coupon.

Cranes 483, 484

pizza paper cranes

Folded with pieces of red note paper.

Cranes 481, 482

car wash paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a library receipt.

Cranes 479, 480

library paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an expired local coupon booklet.

Cranes 477, 478

foster city youth paper cranes

Folded with pieces of yellow paper instruction notes.

Cranes 475, 476

corner window paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a credit card description of services insert.

Cranes 473, 474

security overlook paper cranes

Folded with pieces of an instruction booklet. Back at San Francisco International Airport for an evening pickup.

Cranes 471, 472

kaiser waiting room paper cranes

Folded with pieces of green note paper.

Cranes 469, 470

sfo smarte carte paper cranes

Folded with two web magazine subscription card inserts.

Cranes 467, 468

water fountain paper cranes

Folded with expired coupons and posed near a water fountain display in Palo Alto.

Cranes 465, 466

barnes and noble cafe paper cranes

Folded with pieces of a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon mailer.

Cranes 463, 464

cafe paper cranes

Folded with recently expired coupons and posed while sipping coffee at a Redwood City cafe. We were waiting for the Pixar movie "Up".

Cranes 461, 462

mongolian hotpot paper cranes

Folded with red note paper.

Cranes 458, 459, 460

water fountain paper cranes

Folded with white note paper and the word "cool" written on them. Today was slightly chilly.

Cranes 456, 457

linear wooden bench paper cranes

Folded with pieces of green note pad paper.

Cranes 454, 455

target paper cranes

Folded with junk mail inserts for FTD flowers and Geico Insurance.

Cranes 452, 453

chimes paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a Verizon wireless mailer.

Cranes 449, 450, 451

post office counter paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a Wall Street Journal subscription junk mailer. Placed on the Post Office counter while the worker retrieved the parcel sent by my brother-in-law.

Cranes 446, 447, 448

comedy club paper cranes

Folded with white pieces of paper and the name "Rex" written on them. This shot was taken of the Cobb's Comedy Club stage before the show started in San Francisco. Filipino-American comedian Rex Navarette was headlining.

Cranes 444, 445

going green paper cranes

Folded with pieces of green note pad paper.

Cranes 441, 442, 443

park bench umbrella paper cranes

Folded with pieces from white note paper and half an advertisement coupon for Claritin. The forecast today was mostly cloudy with a possibility of showers. Oh wells, better safe than sorry.

Cranes 438, 439, 440

costco big tuna paper cranes

Folded with pieces of white paper with home and work notes on them. Yes, those cans of tuna are 4 lbs. each

Cranes 435, 436, 437

historical san carlos paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an Anthropologie catalog cover and posed on top of a historical san carlos, ca book in my dentist's waiting room.

Cranes 432, 433, 434

recycle paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a DMV registration mailer.

Cranes 429, 430, 431

sf giants baseball paper cranes


sf giants vs. sl cardinals, friday evening

Folded with pieces from an sf giants/train brochure. We attended the 7:15pm giants vs. the cardinals game last night but was not sure I'd have time to upload them before midnight. This morning I was downtown and snapped the pic with the cranes a block away from the giants stadium (sbc park) on 2nd street and king.

Cranes 426, 427, 428

commuter train paper cranes

Folded with red and green scratch paper while traveling southbound on the train between Hillsdale and Belmont stations.

cranes 423, 424, 425

thinned plant paper cranes

Folded with more steno note paper and a piece or red scratch paper.

Cranes 420, 421, 422

sunlit stairs paper cranes

Folded with steno note paper.

Cranes 417, 418, 419

corner ledge paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a "how to recycle" insert in my desk calendar.

Cranes 414, 415, 416

book return paper cranes

Folded with a Honda dealership mailer and a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon. The library was closed because of Memorial Day, so I just dumped the books in the slot.

Cranes 412, 413

porcelain doll paper cranes

Folded with subscription card inserts for GQ and Details magazine.

Cranes 409, 410, 411

espresso paper cranes

Folded with white paper and the word "breezy" on them. It's a bit windy outside.

Cranes 406, 407, 408

sidewalk shrub paper cranes

Folded with red scratch paper and posed on a wire fence in front of some blooming shrubs.

Cranes 403, 404, 405

tiled courtyard paper cranes

Folded with note paper from white scratch paper and a yellow steno pad. Posed in the nice courtyard outside my dentist's office.

Cranes 400, 401, 402

pets.com sock puppet paper cranes

Folded with white note paper and the word "hastus" written on them. A couple of IT guys were installing the Hastus application on my machine. They had issues with the Oracle database. I took my break and folded some cranes and posed them (on my desk) on top of the infamous pets.com sock puppet, whose "...high public profile during its brief existence made it one of the more noteworthy failures of the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s. US$300 million of investment capital vanished with the company's failure."

Cranes 397, 398, 399

floral paper cranes

Folded with pieces from the last grocery list.

Cranes 394, 395, 396

hola paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an SFO dining guide brochure and posed while munching on chips and salsa at Hola's in Belmont.

Cranes 391, 392, 393

movie paper cranes

Folded with pieces from a AAA Car Insurance mailer and taken while waiting in line to see Star Trek. :)

Cranes 388, 389, 390

inside paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an Bank of America mailer. In Starbucks again, waiting inside for the parade going down our main street to end.

Cranes 385, 386, 387

illustration shelf paper cranes

Folded with pieces from an AT&T mailer sitting on one of my book shelves. I simple reminder for me to keep sketching.

Cranes 383, 384

flowering bush paper cranes

Folded with steno note paper.

Cranes 380, 381, 382

special election paper cranes

Folded with instructions for voting in the upcoming statewide special election.