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Stopped. Watched. stories are observations recorded by various Correspondents for The Chronicle in 140 characters or fewer. RSS feed for these stories

Broadway & Maiden Lane

What appears to be fertilizer has been spread over the vast field of dirt that is the Broadway Village site.

First & Liberty

Green Grand Voyager with the license plate “YODAVAN”

Ashley & Liberty

Green bell peppers litter the gutter on the hill next to the Fleetwood Diner. [photo]

Liberty & Division

“Coming Soon” posters in the former Kaplan and Instant Furniture Rental buildings depict new restaurants and intensive computer-generated foot traffic.

A few blocks down the street, Karl Pohrt welcomes someone, with a smile, into the old Shaman Drum, now closed.

Liberty & Division

Noon: Sonic Lunch in full swing at Liberty Plaza – Red Arrow Highway on stage, lots of folks milling around, some eating lunch.

Broadway near Baits

7:40 p.m.  Call it the Day of the Deer. There’s one standing in a driveway, and it’s not clear whether it or the bicyclist is more surprised at the encounter.

Packard & State

Artisan Bistro is dark, and there’s a “for lease” sign in the window.

UM Diag

3:11 p.m. A spirited game of foursquare is underway on the Diag.

State near North. U.

Moving boxes piling up outside Shaman Drum.

Huron Parkway & Glazier

Deer crossing Huron Parkway…

Diag

Police driving through the Diag.

Shaman Drum

Display windows almost empty, shelves sparsely filled, long line at the checkout – final day for Shaman Drum Bookshop. It’s open until 7 p.m. – and then, farewell.

4th near Liberty

Man biking on sidewalk flies over handlebars to avoid possible collision with exiting gallery patron.

Main Street

Outside the Workantile, Mike Bergren, with field operations with the city of Ann Arbor, helping to locate spots for DDA’s wayfinding signs.  Those are the green stencils that say “Sign” that have been appearing on downtown sidewalks.  Bergren says the holes will be augered 48 inches deep – starting after the art fairs. [Photo not of Bergren but of his colleague, whose name I didn't get.]

Old West Side

A sweet older lady and lovely young woman going door-to-door, handing out literature about how to survive the end of the world.

Wells & Martin

Skateboarder being pulled along by motorcycle.

Maynard & Liberty

From under the Michigan Theater canopy I see an open jeep with Queen’s “I want to ride my bi-cy-cle, I want to ride my bike” blaring.  Just ahead an AAPD bicycle-mounted cop pedals along.  I laugh. Driver laughs.

Washington btw 3rd and 8th

A2 news “Food Fun and Fitness” littering sidewalks and lawn extensions.

Main btw Madison and William

Former Leopold Bros. building is packed with people there for a wedding reception (an assumption based on a table full of gifts wrapped mostly in white, plus what looked like a ring pillow). One lovely decorating touch: Green apples serve as candleholders for white candles placed in the windows.

Argo

Argo Pond livery is hopping with canoers, swimmers, sunbathers, and bikers.

Wildt

Framing for partitions visible through the windows of the former Peter Sparling Dance Studio.  Looks as though that space is being subdivided.

Washtenaw & Hill

11:30 p.m. About 15 people out taking pictures by the Rock, which they have just finished painting.

M-14 & Gotfredson

Horse trailer with two horses sticking their heads out of window, having time of their lives.

Michigan Theater

4 p.m. Wedding rehearsal in progress in the main screening room. Barton Theatre pipe organ being put to good use.

Main & Catherine

Overpowering scent of mulch as workers landscape the area around the county administration building. Cedar or pine? Can’t tell.

Liberty Plaza

12 noon. Chalked on wall facing Liberty: “BEAT IT! M.J. R.I.P.”

Downtown Library

7:02 p.m. Ann Arbor District Library downtown location main branch: Allen Creek drain and creekshed presentation getting under way. [photo]

Veterans Memorial Park

Lightning struck a tree at Veterans Memorial Park again. About four trees south of the last one to get struck. Along Maple South of Dexter. It’s still standing but the middle of the tree looks twisted and shredded.

Carpenter south of Packard

4:17 p.m. Storm water system is just about overwhelmed.

Liberty & Ashley

4:13 p.m. Whitewater in front of the Fleetwood.

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