All along the Running Festival marathon route citizens were out to cheer on the runners.  As the course turned on to International Blvd...

Kwik Way is an old-fashioned drive-thru burger joint near the Grand Lake Theater .  Last year new owners took it over and it's undergo...

Sunday was the 3rd annual Oakland Running Festival.  Over 10,000 people signed up for the various events that made up this year's fest...

This mural is on a corrugated metal partition recently put up while a house is being renovated.  The mural has been in place less than two...

Spotted at a recycle center on Peralta St. in West Oakland.  Some people are just so clever.

Jack London's Oakland roots run deep.  His boyhood home on Foothill Blvd. continues to exist and is still someone's home.  Getting...

This simple mural is found in West Oakland along Mandela Parkway.  I imagine it is meant to be educational to the younger generations that...

This Tudor style sits in a small glen where Temescal Creek runs above ground before it runs into Temescal Lake.  The house was built in th...

I thought this was an incredible paint job on this vintage car.  It reminds me of Chantilly lace.  Spotted at the car show during Art Murm...

This is the other half of the fence mural posted last week.  More humor and nostalgia from Bode and Deb.  I think the mini skirt and go-go...

This is a flashy looking ride.  Right after I took this picture, the owner got on and rumbled away.  Spied at Fruitvale and E. 12th St.

This charming mural is in West Oakland off of Mandela Parkway.  It was done by Bode who brought you the wonderful mermaid featured a long...

This is the nicest purple paint job I've seen and I'm not a fan of purple, especially not on a house.  All that lush foliage tones...

This apartment building off Telegraph Avenue still carries a sign of it's earlier incarnation.   Its subsequent owners must have wante...

This lovely gazebo is found on the grounds of the Dunsmuir House featured a few weeks ago.  The pleasant grounds are another reason Dunsm...

Around the corner from yesterday's mural are these two Victorian houses.  Although they are now duplexes, they retain their classical ...

This very cool three story mural is found on 10th Street in Chinatown.  I really like the composition.   Unfortunately, I couldn't fin...

While out and about I watched kids play at a playground in Chinatown.  It wasn't until I really looked at the play structure that I re...

The Oakland Museum presented a multi-faceted celebration for the Lunar New Year.  There were many activities for children, Chinese dances,...

The Financial Center building is downtown at 14th St. and Franklin.  It was built in 1929 and is considered to be an example of...

A new mural has appeared on the Haley Law Offices building in downtown.  Created by the Manentes, a father and son team,  this is the seco...

The tower you see is part of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge .  The erector set behind it is the original span which will be in use...

Found on a sidewalk in East Oakland.  Happy Valentine's Day.

If you drive by this gym you'll see all kinds of martial arts being practiced across the day and well into the evening.  I'm espec...

It's amazing what you can find when you leave your well traveled routes.  Found this Jules Verne octopus painted across the front of t...

Automania has some pretty funny stuff around their building.  Their motto is Rust in Peace.  Presumably with laughter on their lips.  Loc...

Dunsmuir House was built in 1899 on 415 acres in a small valley in the Oakland hills.  Alexander Dunsmuir,  heir to a Canadian fortune in...

Don't ask me why a place called the Leaning Tower of Pizza would have a mural of Venice; but it is what it is.  Hey, it's all ...

Today is City Daily Photo's monthly Theme Day.  Because I'm so literal, I'm posting the only umbrella photo in my archive.  Pa...

In the spirit of the Space Invader of Paris, a local artist has been sprinkling Haddon Hill and other neighborhoods with tiny gnomes.  Ju...

The Cathedral of Christ the Light is the seat of the Oakland Catholic diocese.  It's the first cathedral built in the 21st century.  A...

On Friday I showed you a shot of Maxwell Park.  Today I'm featuring the mosaic mural that covers all four walls of the restroom build...

Maxwell Park is also the name of the neighborhood in the East Oakland foothills.  The area began development in 1921.  The park itself is ...

Parked at Jack London Square, the city's rescue ship is ready for any emergency on the estuary.  You don't hear about it bein...

  The Bellevue-Staten building reigns over Lake Merritt.  It was built in 1929 by famed architect Herman Carl Baumann, and is an elegant ...

Two years ago I posted a mural on an alternator shop.  This bilingual mural is inside the entry of the same business.  The style is naiv...

The weather is generally chilly except in recent afternoons where it seems almost balmy.  In any weather folks are out walking the lake.  ...

Many of the warehouse district buildings have recently been converted to office spaces and condos.  The American Bag Company, built in 191...

This is only one section of a large mural on the side of a Smart & Final warehouse in East Oakland.  As this section suggests, the mur...

The Mormon Temple, by virtue of its position in the Oakland Hills, can be seen from most highways crossing town.  It's most dramatic a...

  At a Friday Art Murmur I noticed this guy wearing a vest he had decorated with parts of a vegetable steamer basket.  (Zany is all arou...

Straus Carpet has had their warehouses faced with eye catching murals.  So far their name is on a placard rather than on the building.  Th...

Can't miss this ad when you're driving by.  Makes billboards seem puny.  Spotted in Uptown on Telegraph and Grand Avenue.

Strolling through Mt. View Cemetery last week, I spied a number of graves decorated with Christmas trees.  I was both surprised and touche...

As you can imagine, boating in the estuary and bay is a popular activity.  Our estuary has lots of marinas where folks can berth their boa...

Downtown buildings showing the multiple architectural styles you'll find there.  The flag flying Tribune Building is to the right.  Th...

This warehouse in Jingletown is decorated with mosaic murals that have evolved over the past few years.  They use several sizes and shapes...