Birthday flowers in San Rafael

Where a weekday birthday arrangement actually goes in this town is a short and unusually civic list. The Marin Civic Center at 3501 Civic Center Drive is the single largest destination — Frank Lloyd Wright's last major commission and his only government building, the long blue-roofed span with the gold spire that everybody on 101 uses as a landmark, and inside it the county administration, the assessor and clerk counters, the Superior Court and the Marin Center box office. It is one building in name and a series of arcaded wings in practice, so a delivery needs a wing, a floor and a department, not a department name alone; anything routed toward the court side goes through screening and the runner will not get past a bailiff with a vase. The BioMarin Pharmaceutical campus on Lindaro Street at the downtown end is the other big one, a multi-building footprint where the lobby desk you want depends on which building your recipient badges into. Then the McInnis Parkway office park on the northern edge past the Smith Ranch Road exit, the Kerner Boulevard and Francisco Boulevard East corridor of trades, studios and light industry behind the Canal, the Northgate Drive retail and medical-office cluster in 94903, and the county's school offices — Terra Linda High on Nova Albion Way, Davidson Middle School, Bahia Vista Elementary in the Canal, Marin Academy on Mission Avenue, and Dominican University of California at 50 Acacia Avenue, where a front-desk drop at the administration building beats guessing at a department in a converted mansion.