Friday night and Cafe Van Kleef is packed due to the crowds rummaging around downtown due to oaklandartmurmur. On the first friday of the month a bunch of galleries in downtown oakland stay openn late and it generates a lot of foot traffic.
A little ways down the street is the Uptown. A decent little place to catch shows.
Hard to miss the the giant glowing guitar.
And of course if your rummaging around late at night and want food...chinatown comes to mind. I present the Legendary Palace.
A light post on Franklin and 17th st. Extremely beautiful with the right lighting.
Behind the new catholic cathedral on the edge of Lake Merrit is a small set of tulip trees. The contrast of the pink on the blue buildings is amazing. I took pictures of an old chinese couple looking at the blosoms. We milled around each other but then when the older gentlemen (Eric Zhang) saw my camera, we carried on a very constrained but wanting conversation of how best to photograph the flowers. He showed me he had taken photos of me taking photos of the flowers, so I turned my camera over and showed him I had been doing the same of him. We laughed and then I took a photo of him and his wife and made arrangements for emailing him the image:
I wandered across a random orchid sale/contest at Lake Merritt, here is an award winner:
A seagull trying to figure out why there is a totem pole in Oakland. I'm wondering the same thing.
Yes, its a Pelican. The poor thing takes big swigs out of Lake Merritt. Its basically like having the sewer pipes wash right into his mouth.
Yashino Cherry Tree Blossoms - spring is definitely here.
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