Walking Around Berkeley in a Cloudy Day

It should be raining in San Francisco Bay Area in this time of year, yet it rains almost every other day. When it rains, I have to walk instead of riding my bicycles to work, for safety's sake. The benefit of such walk is that I can observe many beautiful things carefully, instead of just let them fly by.

Yesterday was such a walking day and I took some pictures to document what I saw. There were many flowers in Berkeley now - glamorous or humble, plain or unusual:









Beauty exists not only  in fanciful colors, but also plain:





Even the most impersonal building blocks had some melancholic allure:







However, I was always glad to be back in nature:



And to top it all, to encounter a lovely feline, who didn't give me any due attention.  Cat!





And this beautiful scene was definitely a fitting finale for such a day: