Chinese New Year Parade

Parading

 Paul's Grandfather

recommends it

Festive lanterns

line 9th street

Old Oakland

Oaklandish

Spring

permeates

one's world view

Tableau

of the eternal

verities

Gold Lion

going to show me

where the light is

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for ourselves

Be a lantern

unto thyself

unto the world

Emotions are fleeting

plum blossoms

 soon fall away

Reason to be cheerful

A flock of ducks

Chinese mail art

Another angle on the Town

Hill Castle Apartments Hotel

quite an edifice,

Oakland architecture

echoes the deco

Down by the estuary

we're in the midst

of a semi-heat-wave

But 75degrees after weeks

of brisk 50s and 60s

feels sunny and hot

Since the flowers

seem to love it

so do I

Yikes

My Bloody Valentine

Applique

on cement

retaining wall

Dragons come easily

to the imagination

castles on a hill

February 2018

February the First

February

each day is Valentine's Day

He was up late last night

digging a purple moon

He celebrates

Ground Hog Day

tomorrow

From BART to my coffee shop

Super duper game this week

who cares ?

Homey don't play that

 

Berkeley college on Center street

I find myself indoors again

Chance encounter

with a Black History month

celebration

Puzzling evidence

from a buried history

How Berkeley sees itself

 Some exhilaration

approaches in the stairwell

Drumming masters

Polyrhythms reverberated

throughout

uniting for a moment

our local community

They didn't play for long

 but it was sheer uplift

There was great pizza,

nuts and fruits

and cutie tangerines

After a doctor's appointment

travel by public bus,

 a quiet and poignant

traditional African-American

neighborhood to Oakland

The sky held

intimations of

Mardi Gras

Ash Wednesday

February's strange auguries

1 February 2018