An auto repair shop on Park Blvd. offered three of its walls for new murals by the Community Rejuvenation Project .  I showed you one side...

When you walk around Lake Merritt, not all the treats are visual.

This is the last image I'm posting from the huge Fruitvale mural I've been showing you.  Doty's birds interweave with Cannon D...

Meet Cello Joe.  He plays his electric cello at events around town.  How does he electrify his cello?  By having a volunteer ride a bicycl...

Here's another section of the large new mural on East 12th Street at Fruitvale Avenue.   I'm pretty sure this part is by Doty wh...

Monuments galore dot Mt. View Cemetery.  This one glowed in the late afternoon sun.

Watching kids play is a trip.  It's such a pleasure watching unfettered joy.

A fellow blogger tells me this part of the mural is by Cannon Dill .  Don't ask me to explain it.  I do know that all those winding li...

We're having a mini heat wave so it's best to run the lake in the early morning.  By noon we're fanning ourselves and kvetchin...

Food trucks are wildly popular in Oakland as well as the rest of the Bay Area.  This truck was spotted at the Oakland Museum's weekly F...

Like every city, Oakland has its share of homeless people.  It's hard to know what to do to address this problem especially since ment...

Here's more of the Doty-Polka mural I showed you last week.  It's painted on both the corrugated wall of the warehouse and the fro...

The Oakland Museum 's recently renovated natural history gallery highlights the ecology of several specific locations in California.  ...

Another shot of our iconic shipping cranes.  Sometimes we get a clear sunset with no fog creeping over the hills from the coast line.

Barbershop spotted on 14th Avenue in East Oakland.

The New Parkway, a theater for second run movies, has recently opened in the Uptown area.  Folks are happy to have them back since they ha...

Three weeks ago I showed you part of a large mural that was going up on a warehouse/work space on E.12th Street and Fruitvale Avenue.  Th...

Someone is working on a vintage car.  I have no idea of the make.  But I bet Louis La Vache will tell us.  The car seems fantastic, fun, a...

Found at 48th Street and Telegraph Avenue.  Painted by Chris Granillo who I believe also painted this mural .   It's the familiar be...

Here's a close-up of the dragons on the dragon boats.  Fierce, no?  I think it's pretty funny that their beards drag in the water.

Last weekend was the dragon boat races on Lake Merritt.  The winners of this competition are going to Ravenna, Italy for the international...

The quail is the state bird and the poppy the state flower.  The mural can be found at MacArthur and 108th Avenue close to the San Leandro...

Spotted at American Steel Studios.

  Technically, the flags should be on bouncing springs to properly be called a deely-bopper.  But we can be forgiven this slight variatio...

Here's more of the huge mural that is being created on the sawtooth building on San Leandro Blvd. in the Fruitvale District.  I think...

T he old Parkway Theater on Park Blvd. was a popular place for second run movies.  It was known for cheap tickets, casual seating using s...

I'm a little late to the party.  The first of each month, City Daily Photo sponsors a theme, this month's being street lamps.  Th...

This evil looking little girl is the advertising logo for a mom & pop company that makes journals.  They use old, well worn book cover...

When looking for murals, it pays to go back to your old hunting grounds.  This mural--another product of the Community Rejuvenation Projec...

They sang Irish songs of love and struggle.  Captured at the Temescal Street Fair. I'm out of town this week and will not be able...

You too can channel your inner ballerina.  Or, go to a rave in this outfit.  Who can resist pink tulle?  For sale at the Temescal Stree...

She had the perfect seat in the house.  I was quite taken with her Dr. Seuss ponytails.  Dad was completely smitten with his little one.  ...

Last week I was driving down E. 8th Street and saw a crew painting a fence.  So of course I had to stop to take pictures and talk with the...

In case your electricity goes off, you can still have your morning smoothie.  Just get on your generator-bike and pedal.  Taken early last...

Apparently he's called Bubble Man.  But I needed an A for the new round of ABC Wednesday .  He delighted the kids at last week's T...

Sorry for the delay.   Internet problems.  Grrr. A new mural is going up in East Oakland near Fruitvale Avenue.  The canvas is a sawtoot...

The Alameda County Superior Court, built in 1934, is positioned on the shore of Lake Merritt.  This late afternoon shot was taken from a r...

  Who can resist an aqua Stratocaster? Meet 2/5 of Rita Lackey and Friends.  They are an all female R&B band that had people up an...

Today was the annual Temescal Street Fair on Telegraph Avenue which celebrates the neighborhood and Oakland in general.  All kinds of loca...

Lake Merritt was the first wildlife refuge in North America and is on the migratory path of many bird species.  Egrets and herons tend to ...

The Inter-Tribal Friendship House has this wonderful mural in their parking lot.  The IHF was established in 1955 as one of the first urb...

First I noticed the old, attractive building, then I noticed the business name starting with X .  And then I thought of ABC Wednesday .  ...

The season's bounty is evident at the local farmer's markets.  We're lucky enought to have several every week in Oakland.  It ...

  This one is from the archives.  It's found in East Oakland and is, I think, a product of the Community Rejuvenation Project.  It...

During last Fall's Black Cowboy Parade music came on and everyone jumped up to dance the Wobble.  This was new to me but not to dozens...

Drat!  Missed the performance of this group during last Sunday's Love our Lake Day.  Bad timing on my part.  Love their charro outfits...

This mural decorates the side of a barber shop on San Pablo Avenue in the Golden Gate district.  A cyclone fence made it hard to get a goo...