Mission Mission

Today, Google Maps’ highly anticipated (especially here in the most walkable city in the world) “Walking Directions” feature is available to all users. It does let you plan a route through the pathways in Dolores Park, but as of yet, it doesn’t seem to realize pedestrians can walk on grass

Link. [via Google Blogoscoped]

Previously on Mission Mission:

Future View of Downtown from Dolores Park

Google Maps Street View Reveals Potentially Noxious Pink Gas Cloud Descending on the Mission

Every Sunday, the Free Farm Stand sets up shop at Treat Commons and offers a beautiful array of produce to low-income and tight-budgeted folks from the neighborhood. It’s run by Tree, who also writes the Free Farm Stand blog. Over the weekend, the woman on the left had a bright idea:

Fillipa suggested I put up a sign in the neighborhood saying that I am available to pick people’s fruit trees. She knows of two neighbors with fruit trees that don’t get picked. I think I will do that and let people know that the farm stand will take any fruit as well as pick it.

Link. So if your fruit tree is sitting unattended, get in touch with Tree via the blog, or visit the Free Farm Stand at the Treat Commons Community Garden (at 23rd and Treat) every Sunday from 1-3pm.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Who Wants to be an Urban Farming Intern?

Treat Street Treats

See what else he does here. Visit Blue Bottle Coffee Company here.

[via items of interest to me and, possibly, to you]

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Merlin Mann has a lot of good ideas. Any takers? Link.

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Mission Mission Twitter Status Update

Mike from Inhabitat tips us to this item, a portrait project by the Curbs and Stoops design collective. Last week, they set up a couple of cameras and a “Free Portraits (w00t!)” sign on Valencia Street by Mission Playground, and started making portraits. It was a sunny summer day, so all of the hundred or so images make our community look nice and summery. They are located here, and a blog entry about this process (with behind the scenes photos) is here. Thanks, Mike!

Mission Pie’s got some of its rustic charm back, thanks to a two-seater counter that faces out the front window. The stools? Big, iron tractor-driver seats. So you can pretend you’re cruising some kind of old-timey combine up Mission Street as you enjoy your slice of banana cream — for breakfast, of course.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Mission Pie’s Bright New Corner Location Opens for Business

Pie Art

Our new favorite thing to do at Bender’s: Examine the dozens of funny confiscated (or donated or maybe discarded?) IDs encased in three custom-made tabletops across from the food counter. Some are funny because the pictures are funny. Some are funny because the names are funny. Some are funny because the quality of the forgery is funny. At the very least, you’re sure to at least find one that looks like someone you know.

Our new second favorite thing to do at Bender’s: Eat burgers at the bar’s free Sunday afternoon backyard barbecue.

Previously on Mission Mission:

You Heard it Here First (and then the Chronicle caught on): Bender’s Bar Great for Low-Key Nights Out

Bars of the Mission: Bender’s Bar

Photographer Deb Zeller, who books shows at the Make-Out Room and runs Playing in Fog, just published these photos of some cute puppies she met in Guatemala. Aww! A bunch more here.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Funny Photo of Puppy All Tarted Up for Carnaval

Puppy Pals Reunite at 16th and Mission (Video)

Tonight from 6-9pm, Little Tree Gallery is serving free Trumer Pils, in conjunction with some art or something. Further details via funcheapSF here.

Photo by tom ferris.

This here is an outtake from Be Afraid: San Francisco’s Parking Stencils of Doom, a photo essay by Telstar Logistics‘ Todd Lappin set in the Mission District. In it, you get to see one of DPT’s stencil technicians in action!

Photo by Telstar Logistics