Haight Street Market

1530 Haight - 8:32 am

The first tables to drink coffee on the mid-block section of Haight since Coffee, Tea & Spice closed down about five years ago.

I sip a macchiato, to their exact specs and a toasted sesame bagel from House of Bagels.

This short break is a stop to enjoy the people on the street on a busy weekend. True it is morning, on a Friday and the delivery trucks line the street in front of Gus and Georgia's burgeoning business since their expansion of the store after acquiring the old Ethiopian restaurant, which also included a certified Blue Bottle espresso bar.

Haight Street Market

A slight feather dusting of the sky, luminous with a crisp morning sun, will burn off quickly to reveal a beautiful morning during the late spring. A humbling 55 degrees, almost shirt sleeve weather starts the day, as students scurry off to Urban H.S. around the corner, or bicycle commuters pedal past on their way to work.

Today, at 12:15, I fly out of Oakland International Airport to Los Angeles for my last CTA State Council of the year. I actually like the fact that I didn't fly down last night, as I usually do, in a hurried rush to finish substitute teacher plans and inevitably leave many more papers to grade for the fast and furious last week of school. If I didn't grade the student portfolios last night before I left school, I surely would not be ready to pass them out at the beginning of next week.