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Sarah Stierch

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Writer, photographer, polymath. Hoosier x Californian. 🔥🙋🏻‍♀️🌮✊ My opinions are my own, not those of my employers. https://linktr.ee/sarahstierch

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Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 12h

An examination room at Alcatraz Hospital
San Francisco, California
July 2025

#nationalparks #california

Empty prison cell with barred doors, pale green walls, a simple bed frame, and a wooden wheelchair positioned near a barred window.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 12h

An examination room at Alcatraz Hospital
San Francisco, California
July 2025

Empty, dimly lit room with mint-green walls, barred windows, and an old surgical table beneath a large overhead lamp.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 4d

🍦Post-TS "The Life of a Showgirl" soft serve at Foster's Freeze in Napa. 😁

#icecream #napa

A hand holds a vanilla and chocolate swirl soft-serve ice cream cone inside a retro-style Fosters Freeze with checkered floors, red booths, and vintage décor.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 5d

life of a showcat

#catsofbluesky

Person in a black hoodie holds a very large orange-and-white cat inside a room with green carpet and framed posters on the wall.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 7d

I can't remember, was the entire Census website white washed during the last #shutdown?

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 7d

I have misspelled shutdown as "shitdown" two or three times today.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

Hard to believe a grown man was able to smush himself through that duct (which was hand chiseled to be widened) and into a utility corridor...and eventually off the island.

Three men escaped and were never found. They remain on the FBI's wanted list.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

A ventilation duct used in the 1962 June escape from Alcatraz.
San Francisco, California
July 26, 2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19...

#sanfrancisco #california

A small prison cell with a narrow bed, folded blanket, metal sink, shelves, and a hole beneath the sink in the wall, part of a historic escape scene.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

Yes! That's when that campfire smell blanketed the Bay Area!

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

Office in the dining hall at Alcatraz
San Francisco, California
July 26, 2025

#Travel #SanFrancisco #California

An old industrial office booth with green-painted concrete and glass block walls stands inside a worn factory space, containing a black filing cabinet, fan, and a copper fire extinguisher outside.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 11d

No major wildfire in the Sonoma, Mendocino or Napa counties. There a wildfire in Oregon that is to blame for the poor air quality.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 12d

'A breakfast appointment with MAGA leader Steve Bannon. A planned lunch with billionaire Peter Thiel. A mention of billionaire Elon Musk potentially coming to the "island," with the notation 'is this still happening?'

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Democrats release Epstein records mentioning Musk, Bannon, Thiel, Prince Andrew

The documents released by Democrats include parts of Epstein's daily schedule in 2014, 2017 and 2019 and a flight manifest from 2000.

www.usatoday.com

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 17d

BANG BANG!!!

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 18d

🙋‍♀️ Demonstrators hang signs reading "Yes on 50 Election Rigging Response Act" and "ICE raids are terrorism" on an overpass along southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025.

#sonomacounty #sonoma #politics #ICEraids #protests #demonstrations #california

People stand on a freeway overpass holding banners that read “YES ON 50 ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT” and “ICE RAIDS ARE TERRORISM.”

Reposted by Sarah Stierch

The Mendocino Voice @mendovoice.bsky.social · 25d

🪶 🚶‍♀️ The annual Nome Cult Walk begins Sunday in Chico, with dozens of Native Americans walking the 100-mile Konkow Trail of Tears to Covelo.

mendovoice.com/2025/09/nome...

#indiancountry #mendocinocounty #covelo #nativeamerica #chico

Annual Nome Cult Walk commemorating Konkow Trail of Tears starts Sunday in Chico • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA

Dozens of Native Americans will walk 100 miles to honor Konkow Maidu ancestors forced from their homeland.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 27d

🦆 Bird watching elevated to new levels in Sonoma today.

#sonoma #birds #california #roadsideattraction

A silver pickup truck towing a trailer with a giant duck statue parked along a street in front of a one-story building with trees in the background.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 28d

"Meet me at Willie"

Statue of Willie Mays by William Behrends
San Francisco, California
August 2025

#sanfrancisco #photography #publicart #baseball

Bronze statue of a baseball player outside Oracle Park in San Francisco, with palm trees and the stadium entrance sign in the background.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · 28d

🦋 As monarch butterfly populations decline rapidly, California State Parks are asking the public to track their sightings to help with conservation efforts.

Please share and do your part to help!

mendovoice.com/2025/09/cali...

Californians asked to track monarch butterfly sightings to help save declining population • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA

State Parks officials are asking residents to photograph monarchs and caterpillars and the upload the images to iNaturalist to guide conservation and habitat restoration.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Sep 8

China Basin Park with an Oracle Park view
San Francisco
August 2025

A cool city park where you can listen to the roar of a Giants game or catch a concert – or just chill on a rare 75 degree day in San Francisco.

View of Oracle Park in San Francisco from across McCovey Cove, with four red Adirondack chairs on a sandy beach in the foreground.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Sep 6

Bay View Boat Club
San Francisco, California
August 31, 2025

#sanfrancisco #photography #yellow

Close-up of a bright yellow wooden wall with bold blue trim and a metal lock on the right side.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Sep 6

Ships on the bay

San Francisco
Aug. 31, 2025

#sanfrancisco #bayarea #maritime #ships #california #photography

Cargo ships sit anchored offshore on a hazy morning, with faint outlines of hills in the background and seabirds dotting the water.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Sep 1

Only in the Bay Area do you get Angela Davis and 49ers at a WBNA game.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Aug 31

⚾️ After 10+ years of living the Bay Area I can officially knock Oracle Park off my list.

Giants 1
Orioles 11

That makes two parks off the list so far.

#bayarea #mlb #baseball #giants #sanfrancisco

Person in San Francisco Giants gear takes a selfie inside Oracle Park with the field and scoreboard in the background.

Person in Giants attire smiles while posing between large Lucy and Snoopy Giants statues.

Close-up of a Ghirardelli sundae held up against the backdrop of a Giants game at Oracle Park.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Aug 29

Heads-up folks if you're heading to the Russian River, Lake Mendocino or Navarro River in Mendocino County this weekend.

The Mendocino Voice @mendovoice.bsky.social · Aug 29

🦠 The Army Corps of Engineers is warning of harmful blue-green algae in Lake Mendocino, weeks after the lake tested negative. Two local rivers have also tested positive.

mendovoice.com/2025/08/army...

#mendocino #ukiah #mendocinocounty #california #andersonvalley

Army Corps of Engineers warns of harmful algae detected in Lake Mendocino • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA

In addition to the Army Corps warning, the state is also warning of algae blooms in two local rivers.

Sarah Stierch @sarahstierch.com · Aug 29

A little Eschscholzia californica on a sunny August day in Santa Rosa, Calif.

#california #flowers #wildflowers #sonomacounty

Close-up of a bright yellow California poppy blooming among green feathery leaves in sunlight.