Every Christmas Mt. View Cemetery has a light display that draws visitors from all over.  This is one small corner of the bounty of light...

Here is another mural along 15th Street done by the Love Oakland group.  The little guy looks scared as he aims for the stars.  But his me...

Saw this last week and it make me laugh.  Reminds me of all those westerns that show a dentist advertising with a tooth hanging outside hi...

Several murals reside on one block of 15th Street downtown.  They are sponsored by Love Oakland Group which is self-decribed as "a c...

The City Center sculpture by Roslyn Mazzilli , seen in the background of yesterday's post, is titled "There."  Oaklanders ke...

These students are dancing to a West African band that is performing.

City Center is a business and government complex in downtown Oakland.  The fountain was up and running this week while concerts were held ...

This huge mural is located downtown and was created in 1985.  The title is taken from Ezekial 18:31 which has to do with repentance.  A sm...

While walking downtown the other day, I spied these reflections.  The one on the left is City Hall.  The one on the right, I'm not so ...

Last week we experienced intense winds that really shook the rafters.  One of the victims was this 135 year old eucalyptus tree along the ...

Amanda Lynn has several murals in Oakland, often done in collaboration with her friend Mags.   This one is found around the corner from t...

   This Victorian house is now a duplex. It's recently had a new paint job with at least six colors.  Pretty unusual, if not elegant ...

This large scale mural looks like a group effort but I didn't see any signatures.  I feel I should know the artists by the distinctive...

Today is Theme Day in the City Daily Photo world.  This month's theme is "looking out."  Being the literal sort, I'm pos...

While driving around East Oakland I found this street shrine placed in a median strip designed to divert traffic.  Whoever created it incl...

I really like Cannon Dill's work.  While driving downtown the other day I found another one on a garage door on MLK Way.  His work is ...

At Sunday's farmer's market in Montclair Village, the booth with the longest line was this guy's serving up roasted chicken.  ...

While driving up the street, a flash of color sparkled in my peripheral vision.  I turned the car around and found another mural by the Co...

I know I've seen those eyes somewhere before, but I can't remember where.  Done by Gloria Muriel , a San Diego based artist, w...

As the sign implies, bicycling is very popular in Oakland.  Dedicated lanes for bicycles on our city streets are definitely on the increas...

Here's another one by Mags and Alynn found around the corner from the mural posted last week.  If the ones I found are any indication,...

This is a joint project between Alynn and Mags.  I like the glamor girl especially the flowing and rippled drape of the fabric.  But the b...

This wonderful psychedelic hummingbird is part of a much larger mural on two sides of an old building in West Oakland.  I like the kinetic...

This mural decorates an apartment complex in the Fruitvale district.  I'm guessing the ivy is covering a signature.  It's been the...

This vintage train car was part of a traveling art installation/happening traveling from New York to Oakland.  I tried to take pictures of...

I had no idea that there was an Amtrak repair barn in Oakland.  This isn't too far from Jack London Square.  It was amusing to see an ...

We're enjoying an Indian summer with sunny skies and very little fog.  While walking Jack London Square it seemed like everyone and hi...

Tooling around West Oakland recently, I found this mural done by the TDK crew this year.  It commemorates the 1989 earthquake which involv...

It's taken 24 years for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge to finally open.  This shot is looking east to the Oakland hills.  The ...

The new pedestrian bridge at Lake Merritt was barely open before folks started attaching Love Locks.  Finally Oakland has something in com...

Spotted this unusual kickstand on a Harley-Davidson in West Oakland.  Weird and cool at the same time, don't you think?  Linking to Ci...

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...