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one. An ethereal gurgling fills the air, thanks to the 25 concrete and plastic pipes of the Wave Organ, created by artist George Gonzalez to bring the music of the surf to the surface in a 24-hour symphony climaxing every high tide. There’s more art nearby, too. Scattered across Crissy Field, 50-foot steel-beam sculptures by Mark di Suvero look like a giant’s lost handful of jacks. And, in a grove humid with the smell of eucalyptus in the nearby Presidio’s southeastern corner, a massive snake of logs spills down a hillside in broad curves: An- drew Goldsworthy’s Wood Line. From the waterfront, I head for


the hills: I take MUNI bus 43 past Golden Gate Park to Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve to meet Jason Annecone, owner of San Francyclo bicycle store. We whiz by vine-choked eucalyptus and Monterey cypress as he guides me down steep singletrack mountain bike trails. To escape the fog, I next head east


to the bare, rocky peaks of Corona Heights Park. This dog-walkers’


favorite offers unobstructed views of downtown and Mission Dolores Park, where kids swarm the sprawling new jungle gym and adults loll and picnic on the grass. It would be easy to give in to


Dolores’s gravitational pull, but instead I drop down Market Street to Please Touch Community Garden, an improbable park in a sunken lot next to City Hall. Just a few years ago, art- ist Gk Callahan and farmer Rob Joyce rallied volunteers to turn this vacant lot into a garden inviting to everyone: a ramp of porous pavers welcomes wheelchair-users, while fuzzy lamb’s ear and fragrant lavender plants are favorites of visitors to the Lighthouse for the Blind next door. The goal was to create a place


where people could connect. It’s working: as the garden’s apple trees blossom and its beehive hums to life, the sense of community around it is growing, too. “I think of this place as a stage,” says Callahan, “and what people do here is the art.”


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’ve got a patch of grass in my back- yard. That makes me pretty lucky, for a city-dweller—but my daughter, Sadie, and I need more room to roam than that! Thankfully we’re just a half-mile from the Arnold Arbo- retum, a 281-acre gem in Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” of green spaces designed by legendary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. When Sadie was a toddler, we’d have our Easter egg hunts here. Now, 14 years old, she prefers the park in winter, when the hills are perfect for sledding.


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bright and sunny day. We opt for the shade of Conifer Path on our way to the Forest Hills subway station, just across the street from the park. It’s nine stops and a couple blocks’ walk to our destination, Copley Square. This public space is surrounded by the Boston Public Library, Trinity Church, and the John Hancock


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