Facing the parking lot of this convenience store is this cartoon mural of Yosemite Sam and Wylie Coyote.  I can read Pow and Boom but not ...

Pretty much how Dub Nation is feeling about the Warriors losing the NBA Finals.  Nooooo!

It looks like lots of tattoos are a requirement for employment at the Avenue.  Spotted at the annual Temescal Street Fair.

This series of faces can be found in a driveway just off Grand Avenue.  I don't know the artist, but I've seen his work before.  V...

This is the other side of the Engineers and Scientist union mural I showed you a couple of weeks ago.  I really like the reference to the ...

This fantastic mural covers the side of the Steele Dive Shop.  It's a new addition to a long lived business. Welcome to Monday Mural...

Has fishing season started yet?

This is déjà vu all over again.  For the second year in a row the Golden State Warriors have battled their way to the NBA championship fin...

This month's theme is shadow and light.  Here is a late afternoon scene on the estuary near Jack London Square.  Linked to City Daily ...

This colorful mural is on the front of the building that houses Local 20 of the Engineers and Scientists of California.  It's found do...

This seems like a pretty gentle image of life, especially for a street artist.  Unless there's an irony here that I'm missing.  ...

She came all the way from Paris and now lays at rest in Oakland's Mt. View Cemetery.  Linked to ABC Wednesday .

This composition is next to the gargoyles shown you a few weeks ago which must have inspired another street artist.  It seems like it woul...

Found outside a metal recycling business.  Linked to ABC Wednesday .

Loved the image of the bear growling over this guy's shoulder.  He offered to move out of the picture, but without him you wouldn'...

Another small marina near Jack London Square with a small quay leading to the boats.  Linked to ABC Wednesday .

Another new mural by Doty, this time partnered with Sworne.  Stylistically it is very much like one I showed you a few months ago .  It fe...

  This month's City Daily Photo theme is Smell.  Saw these at a local farmer's market.  Not only did they smell g...

A quirky porch in the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood.  Linked to ABC Wednesday .

This mural is found on the Oakland-Emeryville border just off San Pablo Avenue.  I'm sure the grafitti font spells out the artist'...

Don't ask me who this is supposed to be.  I have no idea.  Maybe a slacker Homer Simpson with the munchies?  Found on a warehouse wall...

Found this in West Oakland on the front of a small market.  At first I didn't understand why some of the Cleveland Cavaliers were in...

I found this leaping tiger on a fence behind a West Oakland convenience store.  I thought it was well rendered and had a definite personal...

Found this massive mural while walking around downtown.  Zio Ziegler has been previously featured here .  He is an incredibly prolific ...

Our state flower, the California Poppy, is proudly displayed on a downtown building.  It's painted by Pancho Peskador who frequently p...

I totally get the idea of good vs. evil.  I'm just not sure what a flying VW bus has to do with it.  Spotted in Uptown.  The artist is...

These Ninja troops are an extension of last week's posted mural.  But they seem so different in tenor, that they feel like separate wo...

This mural is relatively new and replaces this one posted a year ago.  The tone in this one seems a little less tranquil than the previou...

Jayne Cortez was a jazz poet who died at the end of 2013.  You can feel the rhythm in her words.  This mural was found on International Bl...

A local carpet store creates these mini murals for various holidays or special events.  I thought this one was pretty funny. Welcome to ...

Yeh, I know it's the year of the Monkey.  But I couldn't find one.  Besides, dragons are always found at the Lunar New Year parade...

This mural adds charm to a less than charming block.  I can't tell you who did it or what it means, but it has a dreamy, mystical qual...

The Wag Hotel boards your canine friend when you're out of town.  They've wrapped their building in great photographic portraits t...

When it gets too cold to go out on the water, the stacked boats make an interesting sculpture.

I love this woman's blue veiled serenity.  She reminds me of a young Coretta Scott King, hence my thought to post her image on ML King...

It took me a while to grok this image and then it came to me.  It's an aerial view of the eastern estuary! The circle in the upper rig...

There are lots of picnic tables along the estuary shore.  This one offers shade but no shelter from the rain.  It looks like the El Niño h...

I usually see this training tower from the freeway that you see in the background of the photo.   This angle is new to me and happily adds...

This new mural faces onto a freeway on ramp in downtown Oakland.  Ryan Montoya is a Mescalero Apache from southern New Mexico while Erne...

Some days it seems that everyone is walking the lake.  Ever since the city renovated Lake Merritt's landscaping and and traffic flow, ...

Near the Jack London Aquatic Park on the Inner Harbor.  The Alameda marina can be spied across the estuary.  Alameda is an island city in ...

This mural is hot off the presses, so to speak, and was made by Hector "Hex" Rios, a street artist with roots in LA.  It...

Some people go all out with their holiday displays.  Here is one example on Picardy Dr. where all the houses on the street light up.   I...

It's pouring rain right now and we hope this is only the beginning of significant rainfall this winter.  After four years of drought, ...

This very distinctive building is a restaurant in Chinatown.  It appears to have new owners who have spruced it up.  It used to have exces...

Buskers are a common sight this time of year.  Brian looks like he's a one man band.  I should have stayed around to hear him play the...

This is a small space that has a continuously changing mural.  I see five signatures and three different crews represented in this.  I thi...

This mural by David 'MEGGS' Hooke went up in June near Jack London Square.  Here's a link to a short video about its creati...