These San Diego weather forcaster get me every time. Thinking it was going to begin raining any minute, I went for a short bicycle ride in the city.

At suppertime the promised rain still hadn’t come, but the light, high clouds over the city gave me perfect light for photographing flowers in the Marston House Gardens at 7th and Upas Streets.

More than a hundred years ago Irving Gill designed the house for George and Anna Marston. Marston was a successful businessman and important community leader at the turn of the last century. Marston is credited with creating Presidio Park and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. He believed in the importance of balancing environmental considerations with urban growth and development. The 1905 house, which is now a museum, reflects Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence on American home design. It is one of San Diego’s best examples of classic Craftsman Style.