Chinatown at twilight.

Chinatown at the intersection of Grant and Sacramento Streets

Lanterns in front of Old Saint Mary's Cathedral in Chinatown.

This is the sort of thing available for purchase in Chinatown.

The statue of freedom in the Portsmouth Square Plaza playground. This reminds us of the students and workers who were cruely killed or oppressed by the Communist Party of China in the summer of 1989.

This man was playing a Ban-Hu (I think that's what it is) in Chinatown.

Japanese Garden. As seen on a cool, rainy day in January, 2010.

Japanese Garden.

The Bronze Buddha cast in 1790 in Tajima, Japan, now meditating in the Japanese Garden in San Francisco.

Stone lantern in the Japanese Garden.

Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Charles Dorman Robinson painted this view of Cypress Point in Monterrey back in 1909.

Chiura Obata painted his wife in the Redwood forest around 1912, and then reworked the piece in the 1920s. The final title for this work is Earth Mother.

A disturbing painting of SS soldiers leering at a madona and child. This work by Gottfried Heinwein is titled Epiphany II (1998).

The last moments of John Brown's life shown in this painting by Thomas Hovenden, painted in 1884.

An Alaskan carving for a box decoration, depicting a seal. This was made around 1880.

This feather bird was made in the Ica Valley in Peru sometime between 1300 and 1530.

This is an Alaskan carving of a dancing scene, made in the 1890s.

An old Mayan fire god, made sometime between 600 and 800 A.D.

In incense burner base made by Mayan artists or an artist sometime between 600 and 900 A.D.

This is an effigy urn made in the Mayan style between the 12th and 14th centuries. It represents the Sun God.

A mosaic figure of the Huari culture, made between 600 and 900 A.D.

This smiling figure was made in the area of Vera Cruz by an artist (or artists) in the Remojadas Culture.

The Remojadas Culture thrived in Mexico between the 6th and 8th century of the common era.

A squirrel in the gift shop in the Japanese Tea Garden.

I think squirrels have been very tame here for many years.

Looking north toward the Golden Gate from the DeYoung Museum.

Eric in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Saijun in the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Saijun in the Japanese Garden.

Chingwen in the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Chingwen on Vallejo Street in San Francisco.

Chingwen in Chinatown, on Jackson, near Stockton.

To see other images from a social work conference (a 2007 meeting in Hong Kong) click here.