Found on Peralta near Mandela Parkway a block from Monday's mermaid mural.  This uber-industrial  form is hard to ignore.  Looks like so...

Lake Merritt is a stop on the bird migration pathway.  Comorants love to sit on the lake perches facing the sun at the end of the day.  Yest...

X is the hardest letter in the ABC Wednesday alphabet.  So following the lead of others, I'm going with Xmas.  I love Santa ornaments b...

Big Art Studios is located in the old American Steel factory on Mandela Parkway in West Oakland.  It is now home to many different artist...

In West Oakland (on Poplar St., I think) is a huge metal recycling yard.  This year they had artists (Bode, Eya, Marley and Toad) paint mu...

Merry Christmas.  Sending best wishes to all of you. Enjoy the photos posted on Weekend Reflections .

More scenes from Jack London Square.

It's that time of year again.  The annual WES sale to benefit the Oakland Museum is approaching.  Seventeen departments manned by 1000...

Window display on College Avenue.

The 580 freeway underpass on Grand Avenue has a complicated mural dedicated to a history of Oakland artists.  It is too large to photograp...

Here's another pedestrian bridge over Glen Echo Creek on Richmond St.  This one has a pergola covered entrance that looks pretty old.  S...

A shop on College Avenue in the Rockridge neighborhood.  For more reflections, check in with James' Weekend Reflections .

Just in case the birds can't find a place to nest?   Spotted in a small grove of redwoods where Glen Echo Creek surfaces on Richmond St.

There's a Vespa store on College Avenue in the Rockridge neighborhood.  Every time I drive by they seem to beckon.  They're making t...

This fine Italianate house is the only remaining private home of many that once dotted the shores of Lake Merritt. The lake is behind the ...

Spotted in East Oakland in the San Antonio District.  This mural is on the side of an adult education school on International Blvd.

Lake Merritt is a tidal basin fed by the tides in the estuary.  This water way is the link between the lake and the estuary.  It runs throu...

Last Saturday was the 34th annual yacht parade.  This decorated boat at Jack London Square was getting ready to motor out to the Estuary to ...

Picardy Drive is near Mills College and is known for two things---its over the top holiday lights display every Christmas and its architec...

The view from Lake Merritt looking east to the hills.  For more "U" shots at ABC Wednesday, click here .

Nothing says Christmas quite like a visit from the Empire stormtroopers.  The Children's Parade included a contingent from the 501st Leg...

Saturday was the 11th annual Children's Christmas Parade downtown.  The stars of the show, besides Santa himself, are the Tap Dancing Ch...

Here's another detail from that deco palace, the Paramount Theater.  I like these shots in black and white.  Somehow, they seem to fit...

Don't ask.  I have no idea what this is about except maybe as an exclamation point on a Keep Out warning.  Found on 28th Street in W...

The old warehouse district next to Jack London Square has been going through gentrification with old factories converting to loft/condos.  N...

Time usually marches on but sometimes it stands still.  This relic milk depot is on Foothill Blvd. near 55th Avenue.   Click here to view th...

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...