Spire, Bay Area Ridge Trail near the Arguello Gate, open daily; Wood Line, near Lovers' Lane, open daily; Tree Fall, Anza Avenue, Building 95, presidio.gov.
The cypresses planted among rows of non-native eucalyptus near Lovers' Lane fared no better; today there are empty corridors where they once stood.
Yet the ending, which contrives a meeting between the near-lovers in middle age, feels touched by true regret.
Near Lover's Rock, where West Point cadets take their dates, we found the stranded boat, operated by two retired New York City correction officers who had miscalculated their fuel.
Planning has a zig zag nature to it, just like the Land Art Andy Goldsworthy sculpture Wood Line (2011) near Lover's Lane that we loved so much at the Presidio.
There is much about the succession of lovers or near-lovers - Gabriel Atkin, Ivor Novello, Noël Coward, Rex Whistler and above all the unbearable Stephen Tennant with his pearls and tantrums - but these tortuous episodes, in which Sassoon often gave as much hell as he got, are greatly revealing of his dissatisfaction as well as evocative of the period.
At the new play, a sombre, poetic and subjective meditation on suicide, the audience watches in near-silence: lovers clutch each other for comfort, someone quietly weeps, and, at the end, one person incongruously rises to applaud the cast.
Near Harborside, lovers of organic veg will enjoy a stop at the famous Four Seasons Farm (609 Weir Cove Road, fourseasonfarm.com), run by eminent gardener Eliot Coleman, to buy produce, books and artworks from the local artist collective.
She vows to give it up and live in India at an Indian salary, always near her lover.
Reading it is like watching Angot feel around in a drawer of blades, ready to attack anyone who draws near — her lover, her critics, her readers, herself.
