This photo was taken at the zoo a few days ago.  But trust me, the sky is the exact same color today as we speak.  What the picture doesn...

Here is a quiet corner in a mausoleum/columbarium in the Mt. View Cemetery.  The building remains open to anyone interested in visiting as l...

Here's another fascinating mural by Desi in West Oakland on Mandela Parkway.  I think it's official name is Connected Worlds.  He...

Yesterday at the Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park.  The afternoon was warm and the parking lot was full.  The carousel is outside the main gate ...

Down the street from the mural with the abandoned mattress , I was stopped dead in my tracks trying to figure out what I was seeing.  Or wha...

The African-American Museum is housed downtown in what was Oakland's original main Library from 1902-1951.  It is a beautiful Beaux-Art...

The Caldecott Tunnel bores through the Oakland hills to connect the East Bay with Contra Costa County.  It's a heavily traveled route wh...

This is the suspension side of the bridge which runs from Yerba Buena Island to San Francisco.  This shot was taken from Treasure Island.  T...

This mural of Lake Merritt is located on 27th Street at Broadway.  It is painted on the side of what used to be a car dealership.  Now the b...

The Cathedral Building was constructed in 1913 and sits on the triangle corner where Telegraph Avenue ends at Broadway.  And where this foun...

I was in the neighborhood to see a photography show of old Oakland business signs at Woody's Cafe on Park Blvd.  This mural was spotted...

Oakland has a multitude of public murals, only some of which have been shown on ODP.  For this particular ABC Wednesday, what could be more ...

Here's one way to get all your stuff to the neighborhood laundromat.  Spotted at International and 45th Ave.

Only a few feet from the Warren freeway, which runs the length of the Oakland hills, is a trail head that leads through Dimond Canyon to Di...

A vintage car reflects the scene around it one week ago.  For more reflections from around the world, visit James' meme Weekend Reflecti...

Don't know what this ride is called.  But it looks like fun.

Here's another vintage car seen in the 1/4 lb Giant Burger parking lot last Friday night.  Studebakers , with that distinctive bullet no...

Vintage cars and burger joints just seem to have a natural affinity for one another.  On the first Friday of every month vintage car owners ...

Here's a shot of the Bay Bridge looking east toward Oakland.  I took it today from Yerba Buena Island where the eastern and western sect...

Here we are at Lake Merritt again, this time looking north.  The Necklace of Lights can be seen in both the foreground and background.  Th...

Really?  The challenge of X sent me running to the dictionary.  I confess that I didn't know these words until I ran through the short ...

It has been more than 20 years since I have attended our county fair which takes place at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton.  The fair is the es...

Work is being done on the Fruitvale Bridge which crosses the estuary to Alameda.  For some reason the road bed is up for an undetermined a...

This is a standard 1960s apartment building enhanced by a really good paint job.  Apartment buildings of this vintage are typically beige a...

I hope this shot represents some of the diversity of the waterfront.  Taken on a walk near Jack London Square, you can see the marina and ...

New black tanker cars are the perfect canvas for taggers.  These tracks can be seen from the Nimitz Freeway running from East Oakland to Wes...

This is the 1/4 Lb. Giant Burger at High Street and MacArthur in the Laurel District.  The diamond at the far right should read "Shak...

As stated in an earlier post , Glen Echo Creek surfaces above ground several places on its way from the hills to the bay.  One of the longes...

The Oakland hills is home to several regional and city parks that preserve the natural woodlands of the area.  This 500 acre park is named...

Sweet's Ballroom is located on Broadway in the Uptown area.  As the lettering style indicates, it was built in the 1920s.  It hosted al...

This sign has been advertising this beauty shop since the late 50s or early 60s.  While the shop is still in business, the sign no longer wo...

This is another side of the downtown Financial Center with clouds reflected in its windows.  At 15 stories it was once the tallest buildi...

Walking the shoreline is always interesting.  I remembered to look up and this time paid attention to the container yard lights.  The design...

Somewhere along the way when I wasn't looking, part of downtown Oakland became Uptown.  Don't ask me how.  Uptown represents a loose...

These fruit carts can be found on every other street corner in the Fruitvale District, a primarily Latino community.  They sell baggies of f...

Today started out foggy and muggy.  By this afternoon all the fog and clouds finally disappeared.  A walk along the shoreline presented love...

This homemade service sign is located on Foothill Blvd. near Fairfax Avenue in East Oakland.   The guy who owns this shop has a sense of hum...

Spied on Broadway near 19th Street.  I thought the fad for gold teeth "grilles" had come and gone, but apparently not.  To be fai...

I'm still traveling so this is from the archives.  Once more around the lake, my friends.  The white building is the Veterans Memorial...