We walk around to the Western side of the slopes of the hill that is Moraga Park (aka Grand View Park). We pause to look southwards and you can see the homes perched all over the continuing "backbone" of the Golden Gate Heights set of hills, which can be seen in the first picture. The "backbone" runs North to South, as you can see in the neighborhood map. The park has two sets of stairways, a long-standing cement set on its Eastern slope and this recent one, mostly wood and steel on the Western side. There are a couple of benches along the staircase where you can pause and watch the western horizon, a great spot for just sitting and enjoying the sunsets, or a view of the ocean as this woman is doing. She's wearing a parka though it wasn't especially chilly that early December day, but it was windy at the top of the hill. I was wearing just a sweatsuit. She had been laying and napping when I passed by a while earlier so maybe she just wanted to keep warm while laying still. This picture also helps to illustrate that although it's winter, we often get great wonderful sunny days in the 50s or 60s when the rest of the country is in the 20s or 30s.

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