Stopped. Watched.

Model Ann Arbor citizen clearing snow from sidewalk leading to AATA Route 12A bus stop on south side of Liberty, as well as the area around the stop. Thank you, ma’am, it made catching the bus from there a bit easier this morning.

Liberty Plaza is no longer occupied.

After gas line was broken by construction activity earlier this afternoon, as of 9 p.m. Bar Louie is open. Wait staff removing “Closed Gas Leak” signs from door. An ABC Brassiere Blonde will sustain me after attending the second in series of city of Ann Arbor sustainability forums at Ann Arbor District Library.

Guessing a gas line was punched, by Google building on Division. Fire department just leaving now.

City Place project sprouting above ground at an alarming rate: [photo]

A WAVE bus sitting at the side of the road, near a bus stop with a number of people waiting for an incoming bus (to Ann Arbor).  Countywide transit in action.

Dave Brandon media scrum following Wednesday’s special UM regents meeting. [photo]

Blue Tractor closed Tuesday and Wednesday (Feb. 7-8). Spotted some patrons looking for alternative options after Tuesday night’s planning commission meeting.

City of Ann Arbor road patching crew rolling slowly along searching for potholes, dumping patch into them. [Time stamp is correct] [photo]

Michael Jackson guy dancing in his accustomed spot in Graffiti alley next to the Michigan Theater.

Snowdrops in bloom. [photo]

Knight’s Market finished its exterior renovation. New meat counter, too. [photo]

Today at Selma Cafe, having an incredible breakfast and talking with Alexander Jarosev, who said: “I find Ann Arbor cleaner, more decent, more affordable, a place with tastier food and superior civic architecture (not to mention more culturally vibrant) than Oxford, England – similar but no contest.” Alexander is a literature scholar and former archeologist from Oxford University.

Avoid this area. Construction. [photo]

As of Jan. 31, crocus bulbs had sprouted in my garden.

Looks like the city’s taken delivery of a bunch of new canoe/kayaks.

The City of Ann Arbor is doing a good job of putting in pedestrian walk signs. [photo]

Mom pushing bundled toddler on swing. Yes it is warm out.

There two new ZipCar cars right across from the Y in Ann Arbor! [photo]

Garlic mustard profuse and tasty. [photo] All ten spillways rushing with water and sparkling in the sun. [photo]

Hare Krishnas walking and chanting.

Inspiring speech from our President. [photo] [video]

Southbound train stopped for 10 minutes now, blocking passage. Related to prep for Obama visit?

Groundbreaking for Village Green’s City Apartments project. Various city staff, DDA and city council members in attendance.

Obama ticket line now reaches from the Union, down Maynard to William, over to State and south past the front door of the Union again. Overnighters unflagging, wrapped in blankets and resolve. [photo]

Midnight: A couple hundred people, mostly students, are camped out in the lower level of the Michigan Union waiting in line for tickets to president Obama’s Friday morning speech. [photo] Union staff say they’ve told everyone that the line will be moving outside at 2 a.m. when the building closes. Most have sleeping bags or blankets – also, lots of laptops. Channel 4 News was here earlier, and interviewed the first person in line: Teman Evans, a lecturer at UM’s Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He seems totally prepared for the long haul – the union’s ticket office opens Thursday at 9 a.m. [photo]

Seventh and 8th grade Forsythe-Clague basketball games both go into overtime! (This picture is 7th grade.) [photo]

The surface lot at 415 W. Washington is now a pickup/dropoff point for Zipcar.

Lots of people with rolled up pant legs at the University of Michigan Bike Town Hall meeting. [photo]

A peek through window of University of Michigan’s Art & Design studio reveals many lovely examples of new art and design.