Sacred Lands

as seen from the Shellmound / 40th Street Bridge..

These lands belong(ed) to the Ohlone people... now there's warehouses, railways, and a mall..

Nigel Sussman

One of Nigel Sussman's many grafart pieces around Berkeley. This one seen from the #6 Bus as we make the turn onto Telegraph. This is on the Dwight Way side of Han's Bistro, (formerly Bleeker Bistro.) at 2498 Telegraph Ave.

Walk around Mission

One of the things I like about heading to the city to return/check-out new books, (besides the books part!) is walking around and seeing something new..

Friday I needed to make a side errand to Costco before the library opened.. so I got to see this:

untitled mural by Meagan Spendlove just off 10th Street and Sheridan.


St Joseph's Church on 10th Street..


faded building with nice lines next to Harrison Drywall on 10th St.


SF Coffee Company at 13th & Isis..


A 2006 community mural project.. "Precita Eyes Muralists" (youth mural project)




a really large mural, there are more panels in my flickr set.. the mural runs the length of 13th Street from Bernice to Isis Streets.

I had hoped to meet up with an internet friend to walk with her, but the weather forecast sounded questionable.. So I extended my walk from the Civic Center BART to 10th Street.. to Costco, then South to 13th (where I ran into a freeway) and walked along 13th and back up Mission to 8th, then turned back to Market St and across to the Main Branch Library. Not a lot of walking*, but a nice addition to the 1mile (1/2 mile each way) walk to and from Ashby BART.

*I actually created my route on 'map my walk' and it measures it at about 2.4 miles when I include the walk from the library back to the BART station, so with the 1mi to & from my local BART station, that's not bad for a short trip to the city.

Walking in SoMa

some mural/graf Art seen on Howard St. today while walking to Costco..




the above were outside 1137 Howard Street next to a print shop..


further up the street.. a different building that had several pieces on it..

There was lots to take images of regarding street or mural style art but my phone was dying by the afternoon.

endless..

Sticker seen on my walk on Telegraph today..


..reminded me of the Endless Canvas show I went to when we first moved back to the Bay Area..

Emeryville North Oakland GrafArt

near 57th & Lowell..

Ain't I a Woman

Tuesday I needed to be in Downtown Berkeley before dinner time. I thought to go hiking in another city park (I still want to do Mortar Rock Park!), but had a late start (yet again) getting out for my walk. So, after I treated myself to lunch, I headed over to Live Oak Park to read. Despite it being closer to a residential area and playground, it's actually a rather quiet place to just sit on a bench, read, had a snack or watch some fat squirrels acting like cats in the trees... I meandered about and found this really cool mural under a bridge there on the far side of the park..


Sojourner Truth.. "Ain't I a Woman?"

The End is Here

stencil graffiti seen on Adeline near Essex (a block from Shattuck)

Had a long walk to our Vet to pick up cat food, on our way I made sure to stop & snap this..

Ratz on the Bridge

Walking to IKEA last night reminded me that I'd taken a shot of a little mouse on the bridge a couple days before and forgot to post it; first piece of stencil art I've seen walking around. Hopefully it's not the only bit of urban art to be found (that's not city approved I mean).

someone tagged my angel

this angel that I see,
while walking home
when everything is dark.
someone tagged it.
sure it had other tags on it;



maybe I didn't notice as much.
but it made me sad
as if by being here,
you were marked.
Alone with no one to protect you.



The world can be so beautiful,
but you can still be alone.