☞ The fence ran alongside the sidewalk. During its heyday, 38 Geary buses would line up along this sidewalk. ☞ The combined Amtrak and Greyhound building was in the middle of being decommissioned. The benches for Greyhound had been removed. ☞ A cyclone fence surrounded the part of the Temporary Transbay Terminal where Oakland and Marin buses used to stop to pick up passengers. ☞ The formerly busy bus gates were empty of buses. This is how it might feel at the end of the world. ☞ Oil stains were all that remained of the once busy Transbay Temporary Terminal. View all▼

☞ A skull was etched in an elaborately Mayan design. It stared out past fabric and beads. ☞ The skull and neck of a bird was on exhibit in a natural history museum in Newport, Oregon. The pose made it seem to threaten. ☞ An orange jack o' lantern was painted on the inside of a store window under the parking structure over E. 10th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. ☞ A elaborately etched skull was on display in a store window on Haight Street in San Francisco. ☞ A blue eyed creature stared past a performing lion in the Chinese New Year Parade. View all▼

☞ Someone had spray painted graffiti inside an alley on the side of a building. Later, someone decided to erase that graffiti. He or she used spray paint to cover the graffiti, leaving behind a smear that was probably more ugly than the erased original. View all▼

☞ While walking up the Eugenia Stairs, this window was discovered as ajar. Probably ajar to help air out the home with a fresh breeze. View all▼

☞ An old rundown window had, at one time in the past, a mural painted around it. Although painting around windows is common among muralists, the windows are rarely this dilapidated. View all▼

☞ William Carter as a baby, never expecting the wonderful life he led. View all▼

☞ A gnarly forest surrounded the Gold Creek Salmon Bake. View all▼

☞ Gas meters lined up in a Chinatown alley. They resembled identical robots all being fueled to begin their day. View all▼

☞ An Exit to Street sign led the way down escalators or stairs to the parking lot level. The actual street was beyond the parking lot. The shot was overexposed due to a sticky iris, but the exposure worked for this shot. View all▼

☞ A black cat statue remained at the back of the shelf as other knick-knacks were added over time. A carved wooden giraffe up-staged the cat. And to add insult to injury, a plastic bottle completely blew away any hint of an aesthetic. ☞ A stuffed cat sat on a chair in front of a window. It looked perpetually relaxed sitting there, never moving, never chasing a mouse. Inert yet soft. ☞ A large cat mask, being worn by a man during the 2009 San Francisco LGBT Parade, gazed up close directly into the camera. View all▼

☞ A heavy duty search light was unused near sunset on Christmas Day. It pointed down at the bay waters as if ready to illuminate a piece of flotsam. View all▼

☞ A burned out tree trunk stood beside the Willamette River. The nature of the burn caused the suggestion of a small creature to appear just inside. View all▼

☞ An old wooden elevator was located in the old town area of Sacramento, California. A sign on the elevator suggested one should take the elevator to "River City Tattoo." View all▼

☞ An abandoned coffee cup landed between a pipe and the dock. The vertical pipes formed a fence to prevent people, but not coffee cups, from falling over the edge. View all▼