Random SF Christmas Scenes.

SF Opera House

Local annual tradition: Nutcracker at the SF Ballet.

Front desk at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill.

Lobby of the Fairmont. Massive Christmas tree in foreground, more massive gingerbread house in the background. (Over 6,000 freshly baked gingerbread "bricks" used in its construction.)

Entrance to the Mark Hopkins Hotel, Nob Hill.

Historic F-line streetcar on Market @ Van Ness.

Evening in the covered courtyard of the Sheraton Palace Hotel off Market Street.

At the Powell Street cable car turnaround.

Union Square Christmas tree, and behind it the ice rink.

SF City Hall.

Simple Christmas wreath on the tradesman entrance of a single-family house in the Avenues.