Found And Lost In Sycamore Grove

Some manmade art, some natural art and some stories from a trail in Livermore, CA

MondayMural: Mosaic Panda

Have you ever been to a place and had an artwork tell you that you’ve been there before? This Panda mosaic mural in Gustine, CA did just that. Attractive >>

Freight Car Graffiti

Found in and around Tracy, California: Train Car Graffiti. Do you see art here? Or is it plain vandalism? A post for Monday Mural.

MondayMural: How Crow Became Black

For this week’s Monday Mural, is an interesting mural from Three Rivers, California. I spotted this mural at the Village Centre in Three Rivers, when we went out to lunch…

Bruce Ariss art: Across from Doc’s Lab

Across from Doc’s Lab is a mural I came across just off Cannery Row in Monterey, CA. Look at this picture and you will see what looks like a scene…

‘Mack and the Boys’ of Cannery Row

I found these six men on a wall by the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Monterey, California. If you look at it closely, you might see some men from another age.…

A panel of authors to look up to

The Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Dublin, California has just the right kind of wall art for a bookstore. That corner of the bookstore where the Starbucks is, is marked…

Mariposa Mural: The story of town retold in the form of art

If you take the Arch Rock entrance to Yosemite, you might see this mural in Mariposa, a town just outside the National Park. And this mural in Downtown Mariposa has…

A porte-cochère of frescoes

Does that look like just another car porch? This is The Venetian’s carriage-porch. Look up at the ceilings and you will see that it is quite an ornate one. There…

The Renaissance-inspired frescoes of The Venetian

The grandeur of The Venetian Las Vegas is something one cannot ignore. It’s there in the rooms, the hallways, the pillars, the walls and even the ceilings. And when you…