Community Quilt

I'm really gaining appreciation for how San Francisco is like a patchwork quilt, each swatch its own different design (district, 'hood), sewn together into such a magnificent whole. I've been educated about the "microclimates" here - how it may be cold and overcast in the Richmond where I live, but all you gotta do is hop over into Eureka Valley (Castro) and it's sunny delight. It IS sort of like Portland on a large scale, only far more diverse racially and culturally - and meteorologically.