Don't know what would possess a motorcycle club to call itself rats; but there you have it.  Their website doesn't clear up the gen...

While following yesterday's "trail," I came upon this tiny house.  It can't be more than 10 feet wide and maybe 15 feet ...

I decided to take a small street off Broadway to see where it lead.  Much to my surprise it turned into several woodland blocks where Glen E...

Lake Merritt is actually a tidal basin and this afternoon was low tide.  It's the first time I've seen the mussel colonies that grow...

We don't have anything close to the autumn display you see in the east; but we do have the occasional flashes of color that so please th...

Sequoyah Road in the East Oakland hills straddles that line between urban and rural.  The road runs through unexpected housing tracts, a h...

This mural was created in 1977 by a group of students from Laney Community College.  This makes it one of the earliest murals in Oakland.  I...

The light was just right to make it look like the inside of this family crypt was aglow.  Hey, I just realized I could link this to Mellow Y...

Stair banister in Oakland's art deco Paramount Theater.  All the original metal details in this restored theater are made of aluminum....

The City Hall cupola peeks out from behind a modern roof line a block away.  A half moon watches all.  As you can tell, we've continued ...

Across from the BART station posted yesterday is Market Hall.  It contains several specialty shops including a pasta shop, butcher, bakery, ...

Rockridge is an upscale neighborhood in North Oakland.  The Rockridge BART (our metro) station is on College Avenue which runs all the way t...

Just a couple of months ago the free, green shuttle bus was introduced with no fanfare.  It runs from Jack London Square to Lake Merritt wit...

Both passenger and freight trains run down the middle of 1st Street, at the bottom of Broadway, along side of Jack London Square.   Even t...

This is the dock for the ferry to San Francisco from Jack London Square.  The trip takes about 35 minutes and makes a quick stop in Alameda ...

The USS Potomac was Franklin Roosevelt's yacht during his presidency.  It is now berthed at Jack London Square.  In the late afternoon,...

This photo was taken at Jack London Square.  I never tire of looking at these behemoth cranes.  So Star Wars.  You can see that the weather ...

This photo was taken from St. Mary's Cemetery whose border edges the cliffs above the former quarry.  The lake, fed by Glen Echo Creek, ...

Took a tour of the Paramount Theater on Saturday.   The facade mosaic was posted a few days ago.  The entire building is so deco-licious ...

Now that the election season is over, time for a little comic relief.  This is one of several figures in front of a local muffler shop at 65...

The Paramount Theater , with this gigantic mosaic, is another Art Deco building restored and preserved in Uptown Oakland.  It is next door...

The Day of the Dead has a big presence in the Bay Area due to our large Latino population.  Oakland has an annual street festival in the F...

Every year on the Saturday before Halloween, the Piedmont Avenue merchants sponsor a Halloween Parade and trick or treat event.  Part of the...

This long mural is across the street from Oakland Tech.  It was sponsored and funded by the Community Rejuvenation Project which is respons...

Tech is located one block east of last week's post on Broadway.  It was one of six comprehensive high schools in Oakland.  In the past...

Essentially we are near the spot where three freeways merge.  This section replaced the double deck freeway that collapsed during the huge 1...

I always end up doing a double take when walking past Automania .  They're just letting this truck be taken over by rust and foliage.  T...

How many coffee houses can one city support?  Apparently a gazillion.  This is the latest addition on Piedmont Avenue.  The original Caffè...

The Broadway __tel looks like it was built in the late 60s or early 70s.  It's a well maintained property but I would hate to have the...

A detail at St. Leo's Church off Piedmont Avenue.  At noon and 6 p.m. church bells peal, which is always lovely to hear.

This unusual bike rack design is in front of Piedmont Avenue Elementary School.

It ain't pretty, but it's the real deal.  This is what it looks like driving across the Bay Bridge going east to Oakland. For now.  ...

Captured at Lake Temescal.  Every October 15 is Blog Action Day .  This year's theme is water to remind us of our need to consciously ...

Maison Monet is located on the short street that leads into the Rose Garden .  This duplex is very well kept and its paint job is no doubt a...

This is a detail from an idiosyncratically painted Victorian house in East Oakland.  To my eye this is a 1950s color combination but likel...

This pair is found on the Oakland campus of the California College of the Arts .  CCA (formerly known as CCAC--California College of Arts an...

Another nifty vintage neon sign in Oakland.  This one is found on Foothill Blvd. near 35th Avenue and is enamel on metal.  Mohammed, the sto...

The Crucible is a West Oakland art center that started as a metal art fabrication workshop.  Over the last several years, its offerings hav...

A downtown scene with the California State Building in the background.  Despite the proliferation of tall buildings downtown, Oakland remain...

This month's City Daily Photo theme is "graffiti" which probably means different things to different people.  This mural, whic...

Kasper's was an Oakland institution until it closed in 2003.  It opened in 1929 and was owned by three generations of sons until its cl...

This eucalyptus allée is above the zoo on a road that leads to Skyline Boulevard.  It was at the end of this road I found the cowboy working...

Jack London Square is at the foot of Broadway.  Not only does it contain memorabilia of Jack London, you also can catch the ferry to San Fra...

This was taken at MLK Shoreline Park in East Oakland.  This bridge crosses a slough that branches off the estuary.  Nesting herons can be fo...

Ice skating in Oakland?  Go figure!  The Oakland Ice Center opened in 1995 amid a fair amount of controversy about the economic wisdom of t...

Downtown Oakland has had an explosion of housing construction in the last several years which has brought a positive change to the character...

The Hansen Coffee Company continues to roast coffee daily near Jack London Square.  In business since 1894, the area the factory is in was f...

This is one of four projects done in 1992 by artist Sayed Alavi in collaboration with local high school students.  It's always a litt...