Why we love having a home in Berkeley
TweetToday’s the Ides of February… 15 Feb We visiting homes in Berkeley today, and up on Wildcat Canyon saw this beautiful tree. I’m talking to my CyberStar friends right now.. and Pei Lin from...
View ArticleThere is a There There in El Cerrito!
TweetWe’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...
View ArticleWe're living wonderful West Coast Lives
TweetCarol 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...
View ArticleBeautiful Maine Coon Found on Vincente Avenue
TweetRico (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...
View ArticleOur local Thousand Oaks Theater…. The Oaks!
TweetOne 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...
View ArticleDeco Connections
Tweet I’m a big fan of Art Deco architecture. As I travel the world, I try to photograph my favorite buildings. And soon I started seeing connections. A sculpture at Hoover Dam and one in the Rand...
View ArticleTowers
Tweet 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...
View ArticleLobbies
Tweet Some spaces are simply breathtaking! Not my best composed photos… but they give you a sense of the extraordinary details of the Chrysler Building elevator doors… and the lobby and mosaic details...
View ArticleNeon Theater Marquees
TweetThe Cerrito Theater – A recreation of a theater I never knew existed! El Cerrito, CA Rafael Theater, San Rafael, CA Aero Theater, Santa Monica, CA Aztec Theater, San Antonio, TX Much more to come!...
View ArticleConnected By Proximity
TweetOops.. 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...
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