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Friday Slide Show: Laguna Honda
13 January 2023
Just down the hill is a natural lake that serves as a reservoir. When the local news reported our rainfall since October was nearly 200 percent of normal, we walked down to see how high the water level had risen in Laguna Honda. On the one sunny day of the whole week.
It's not particularly accessible. Surrounded by a chain link fence with No Trespassing signs posted every few feet, Laguna Honda is owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. A sidewalk extends along the narrow southern end but not along the long western side that follows the roadway.
FoundSF has some historical images of Laguna Honda dating back to 1919. Clarendon, which leads up to Twin Peaks from the north side, borders the south side of Laguna Honda and is where we shot these photos yesterday.
The water level looked back to normal to us. And since it's raining again today, we don't expect that to change quickly. Good news.
As it turned out, our walk provided something of a respite from a grueling week for us. We imagined ourselves on a brief vacation as we wandered east on Clarendon taking photos through the chain link fence.
There is a growing community of bee hives on the property that you can see from the street. We were happy to see they had survived the strong winds of the recent atmospheric river. Also good news.
But a little further east on the street we saw the chain link fence had been crushed when a large tree came down on it. The tree had already been cut down and removed. There was a blanket of its branches and piles of wood chips nearby.
We saw a few other large trees nearby that had fallen over as the ground became saturated. Not such good news.
You take the good with the bad, as a wise man once said. They never come separately.
