Life in the Oakland and Berkeley Hills

It doesn't matter how many times I see deer cross the road, it always brings a smile to my face. I took this photo as I was leaving a house on Keith Avenue in the Berkeley Hills off of Marin. I was driving with my friend and colleague Nicole, and I asked her to stop the car so I could take a snapshot. I felt like a tourist! This reminds me of when I was showing property to a family from Russia who was thinking about purchasing a home in Berkeley. As we were looking out at the up-slope of the backyard in the Berkeley Hills we saw a few deer grazing on vegetation and the wife said to me, "how sweet they put real deer in the yard for staging". When you are out driving along Grizzly Peak or Skyline Blvd. it is amazing that we live so close to trails and wildlife. We sometimes forget about this as we are driving downtown or across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, but this is one of the reasons living in Oakland and Berkeley is so supreme!