Tree Boulevard (Presidio Boulevard)

   When I am on this road in the Presidio of San Francisco, where the trees form a cool, shady canopy, I am always in my car. On the one hand this is unfortunate, because it is a fairly busy road, and I don't have a chance to engage in the kind of slow, intimate looking, smelling and hearing of my surroundings that normally make beautiful places so moving to me. There are places to walk, rough places in the wooded area off to the right of the picture below, but there is not really a designated, calm path to slowly meander in the area shown in the photo. The fact that I most often am driving when I'm here also has a positive side, in that I believe that this road only feels like the 'Tree Boulevard" of the title from the position from the inside of a car, and for me, it is when I am driving north, as shown in the picture. There is something about being in my car, going twenty five miles per hour that makes the canopy seem like the calming, continuous green drapery that I find so relaxing. When I drive here, it's like there is a cool, refreshing breeze clearing my brain of unwanted debris.