Shorebird Circle, Redwood City, CA 94065

Based on the visual evidence, the photo was taken from a residential patio in the **Redwood Shores** neighborhood of **Redwood City, California**, looking across the **Redwood Shores Lagoon**.

Primary guess

Confidence

• Level: High
• Why:
- The trash can features a white stylized "R" logo, which identifies the waste service provider as **Recology San Mateo County**, serving the Redwood City and Foster City areas.
- The prominent white tiered building in the background is a well-known architectural landmark in Redwood Shores: the **Paragon Point** office complex located at **3 Lagoon Drive**.
- The architectural style of the residential townhomes across the water (tan siding, gabled roofs with distinctive white vents) perfectly matches the **Shorebird** and **Indian Creek** communities in Redwood Shores.
- The lagoon setting with integrated corporate campuses and residential "isles" is characteristic of this specific master-planned community.

Visual evidence

• **Architecture (Background):** A white, tiered/terraced office building with horizontal bands of windows. This is the **Paragon Point (3 Lagoon Drive)** building. To its left is a taller, darker office building with vertical lines, which is **1001 Tower Way**.
• **Architecture (Midground):** Two-story townhomes with gabled roofs, chimneys, and tan/beige siding. This design is identical to the **Shorebird Circle** townhomes on the north bank of the lagoon.
• **Trash Can:** A black rollout trash cart with a white "R" logo. This is the logo for **Recology**, specifically the San Mateo County branch which services Redwood Shores.
• **Environment:** A man-made lagoon with calm water and private residential decks.
• **Lighting:** Dusk/twilight lighting with a moon visible, consistent with the western horizon being to the left (lighting the buildings from the west/northwest).
• **Fencing:** Red and turquoise/mint green lattice fencing used as privacy screens between adjacent patio decks, common in dense townhome developments.

Reasoning

The combination of the **Recology** trash can and the distinctive **Redwood Shores** architecture narrows the search to the San Francisco Peninsula. The specific office building, **Paragon Point (3 Lagoon Drive)**, is a unique landmark on the Redwood Shores Lagoon.
The photographer is positioned on the south side of the lagoon, likely on **Sandpiper Isle** or **Shearwater Isle**. Looking across the water towards the north/northeast, one sees the **Shorebird Circle** townhomes in the midground, with the office buildings on **Lagoon Drive** and **Tower Way** rising behind them. The alignment of the white tiered building (3 Lagoon Dr) and the dark vertical building (1001 Tower Way) confirms this specific vantage point. Alternative lagoon communities like Foster City were considered, but the waste provider logo and the specific silhouette of 3 Lagoon Drive are definitive for Redwood Shores.

Verification

• **Recology San Mateo County:** The logo on the trash can matches the stylized "R" used by Recology in this jurisdiction (Recology San Mateo County).
• **Paragon Point (3 Lagoon Drive):** Real estate and architectural photos of this building confirm its tiered, white, horizontal-banded design (LoopNet Listing).
• **Redwood Shores Lagoon:** Aerial and street-level views of the lagoon show the relationship between the residential isles and the business parks (Redwood Shores Community Association).

Links

• Google Maps View (Note: This is a view from the walking path; the photo is from a private deck across the water).
• Paragon Point (3 Lagoon Drive) Building Info

Coordinates

37.524458, -122.254181 (Approximate location of the photographer on Sandpiper Isle)