Moraga Steps, San Francisco

From the top, it's just another long set of San Francisco steps.

But you get to the bottom and turn around--wow.

You start at the deepest depths of the seas.

As you climb, you rise higher through the waters of earth.

You arrive at the shore of the land, and flowers and plants bloom alongside the waters.

A river flows next to the world's gardens.

On every step, critters and plants and other signs of life are embedded, many with the names of people in the neighborhood who helped to make this mural come true.

Some messages are sweet with memories.

Other messages are a little different.

Keep rising, higher and higher on the steps and in the world it depicts--now you're moving into the sky with the birds.

A creature of the air--a little bat.

As you rise above the air and the sky, you come to the silvery moon, made of mirrored silver tiles.

And, finally, at the top of the stairs and the heavens, our own sun.