Oops.. I posted this on the wrong blog by mistake!Oakland has some amazing deco.. including the Paramount Theater and the Flower Building.I took Carol to breakfast at the Oakland Grill, then to see the California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Continue Reading
A bit of my photographic style.I try to frame the photos so that I don't have to crop them later.Photoshop? Not much fun for me (though I will be using the channel filters to convert color photos to black + white)And I love to use a circular polarizing filter.So... just Continue Reading
One of the reasons Carol and I bought our home in Berkeley's Thousand Oaks Neighborhood is that we loved being able to walk to Solano Avenue... and patronizing neighborhood businesses.It's always a treat to drive down Solano at night and seeing the street lit up by the Oaks Continue Reading
Rico (or RECO) is home safe! Robin took him to the Kensington Circle Vets, Dr. Gayle Vial scanned him and found a chip.At the same time that Robin called the owner, the owner saw the signs that we had printed and Debbie had posted around the neighborhood. Kind of like the Continue Reading
Carol and I are big fans of Sedge Thomson's weekly radio show, West Coast Live... and it made us realize how lucky we are to be living West Coast Lives!We always try to make the show when it's at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)... two hours of "hand crafted Continue Reading
We've been home in Berkeley for over 30 years... and only learned a few years ago that there was a movie theater hidden on San Pablo Avenue.The Friends of the Cerrito Theater has done a marvelous job bringing it back to life!We've had an intense week and I told Carol "I'll Continue Reading