I’ll get back to Geneva-Budapest next week.

Yesterday we went to visit Rudy, Jr., in Oakland. He’s settling into a new place that has some nice built-in cupboards suitable for displaying such treasures as a (functional) rocket that he built.

We walked over to a farmer’s market near Grand Street. The Grand Lake movie theater marquee bore a telling comment about the Chimp’s inept response to the hurricaine in New Orleans. A lot of people in Oakland have relatives in New Orleans. Here's on on-the-spot blog about NO.

A guy in the farmer’s market was in fact selling crawfish, impressively lively and red, $5 a pound. So many lives to be bought so cheaply.

We saw a funny graffito in the alley behind the movie theater. Good coffee shop, good bookstore, seems like a good place to live.

We regrouped, then walked all the way around Merrit Lake, which is actually a dammed slough, with a free flow of ocean tide coming through.

Lots of wild geese around the lake.

All kinds of birds there.

The only ones inside the bird dome were some chickens.

It's risky being a chicken.

Nice reflection of a rectilinear building grid in the water, the squares turning into circles.