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Me too Dyanna! I’ve been meaning to do a blog like this or a photo journal for awhile now! Maybe we should join forces??
Love your photos!
Consider adding them to
Ira Serkes
https://berkeleyhomes.com/blog/
Thanks, Ira. I ‘ll check it out!
Glad you liked my dachshund house come by sometime all dachshund
lovers welcome
Thank you, and thanks for creating such fun art in your neighborhood.
Love your blog. I happen to be making a walking street art map of weird things in Berkeley. I walk around all the time and see strange stuff. I should email you some of my photos. I tend to look for things that are more “permanent”, but that’s the tricky part of mapping. I’m a Berkeley artist.
Thanks Kate! I would LOVE to know about some of your finds.
Here’s an old webpage I posted a long time ago (doesn’t look too great) but these are the kinds of things I collect photos of when I walk around https://kateharperdesigns.com/about_folder/streetart.html
These days I have been photographing primarily weird street art.
Really fun, Kate. I love your cool finds!
Good eye !
Thanks for sharing.
— Les
Dyanna, have you seen the garage doors at 1107 & 1111 Ordway in North Berkeley?
One has been made into a blackboard, with a basket of chalk provided, and the other has been magnetized & loaded up with refrigerator-magnets. Maybe one inspired the other . . . ?
Thanks for the tip, Jeff!! When I met you at the art car event, you told me about a place in south Berkeley that had lots of yard sculpture and was open to the public on Sundays. Could you please refresh my memory as to the location of that one? I appreciate your great ideas for the blog!
Hi Dyanna – that would be Marcia Donahue’s visionary house & garden at 3017 Wheeler (near Shattuck/Ashby)., She opens her doors most every Sunday afternoon, and it is worth travelling from Finland to see!
Dyanna – guess what I saw in Berkeley this morning! a flock of 28 wild turkeys at the corner of Talbot & Gilman. No guarantees as to where they may be by now — but keep your eyes out for them, it’s quite a spectacle.
Wow! They travel in big gangs – probably for protection from the notorious Thanksgiving mobsters! Thanks for the heads up!
Dyanna – have you seen the Wishing Tree at California & Jaynes in Berkeley? Very sweet – though it won’t last through the rainy season, I’m afraid . . .