Oh yes, there is lots of love in the Mission. Photo by Lydia Chávez

Right now it is 60° with a high of 66° – the forecast for the next ten days is here.

Today’s block:  Potrero to Utah, 24th to 23rd Streets.  This is one of those blocks along the edge and I photographed a series of them this morning that I will put up, one-by-one when no one signs up. Interesting doing several at the same time to see how much difference some residents can make on one block.  A little care goes a long way.

With the light good early on, so much the better to sign on and document your block. Don’t wait! Let us know what day and block you would like at info@missionlocal.com.

You can see a map of all of the blocks here. The blocks in grey are being saved for others who have signed up. Let us save a block for you as well.

Sunday morning read. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Sunday morning read. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Sunday morning read. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Sunday morning read. Photo by Lydia Chávez
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Kept out. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Kept out. Photo by Lydia Chávez
A porch of one's own. Photo by Lydia Chávez
A porch of one’s own. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Garden of Eden? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Garden of Eden? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Textures. Photo by Lydia Chavez
Textures. Photo by Lydia Chavez
Same Developer. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Same Developer. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Purple Door. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Purple Door. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Photo by Lydia Chávez
Photo by Lydia Chávez
Garden. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Garden. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Not an invitation you see often. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Not an invitation you see often. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Pipeline to where? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Pipeline to where? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Commerce. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Commerce. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Looks like a short horse trailer to me. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Looks like a short horse trailer to me. Photo by Lydia Chávez
I spy. Photo by Lydia Chávez
I spy. Photo by Lydia Chávez
Road work or passenger friendly? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Road work or passenger friendly? Photo by Lydia Chávez
Walking north. Photo by Lydia Chavez
Walking north on Potrero. Photo by Lydia Chavez

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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