Some of my best thinking is done while pipe smoking.
The DeYoung garden is beautiful at night and I've found a great bench over there that's out of the wind in the children's garden - this is not all pipe smoke and I do try to avoid blowing it on children.
This is my new favorite spot:
I'm really delighted to say that I've completed another little journal - filled the bugger up. I just wish the moleskine journals weren't so expensive.