Seeing Oakland
April 16, 2006

First, I wanted to check out the beach on Alameda - supposedly a very nice one.

squirrels in downtown Alameda

fancy architecture


a walk by Lake Merritt


Howdy!

rock climbing

An iris exhibiton...?


"Fair Iris, I love..."

cactii

Olof wrapped around a small palm tree

Banana!


The Bonzai Garden (also by Lake Merritt)



One-legged birds at the "aviary"




Suddenly, the sky darkens...


Delicious Chinese at Little Shin Shin on Piedmont Ave

Next up, the Columbarium, further up on Piedmont.

a huge library of people's ashes




Space Shuttle memorial


me

A trip up the hill...

...to the dinosaur exhibit at The Lawrence Hall of Science!

Back home...and the sky starts dripping.
Sturdy Swedes, we head out for a walk up the hill.

misty

Tarzan

The clouds are moving back though...the sunshine is closing in on us.

The sun is better after rain.



Heading back down as the sun is setting...