Packs of green-clad young men walking through intersection, not all in a straight line. Some are wearing hats.
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Packs of green-clad young men walking through intersection, not all in a straight line. Some are wearing hats.
Students in a drawing class are focused on the sunny side of the Fleming Administration Building.
Cube plaza: drawing class sketching Fleming Administration Building.
Ashley’s is gearing up for St. Patrick’s Day. [photo]
Happy group of about 25 third-graders, some holding hands, crossing the street in the sunshine.
Large circle of people around The Cube. No idea why.
Spelling-challenged graffiti on the wall of the former Ann Arbor News building. [Photo]
Entire b-b-b-building v-v-v-vibrating from L-L-Library L-L-Lot c-c-c-construction
A squirrel is scaling the exterior wall of Hatcher Library carrying a baby (squirrel).
Old traffic light removed from service. [photo]
Tip of a tail on the sidewalk. A squirrel’s perhaps?
2:45 a.m. Lone man rapping while walking down an empty Main Street.
Passed by the construction site just as one of the workers was placing a TV set in one of the dumpsters. There were also four cement trucks on site, creating a sense of permanence.
U.S. flag at Ann Arbor District Library flown at half-staff. [Governor Graholm issued a proclamation in 2003 that U.S. flags would be lowered to honor Michigan servicemen and servicewomen killed in the line of duty. Today it's in honor of Marine Corporal Jacob H. Turbett of Canton. He was on active duty in Afghanistan.]
How is the hole for the underground parking garage getting dug? Answer: a guy with a shovel [photo]. Last week’s DDA meeting report indicated “real digging” would commence this week. And yes, there’s heavy equipment, too.
Brownie doing brisk sales of Girl Scout cookies at the northeast corner of Liberty & Main. Earlier, a different scout was selling at Main & Washington. On a sunny Saturday, lots of foot traffic downtown.
Sign painted on alley wall indicates a mural will be painted in the spring. That’s soon.
Sign in Le Dog window says they’ll open again on March 11.
From a canoe, wildlife abounded. Pileated Woodpecker in full view, Bufflehead ducks by the dozen, Red tail hawk circling, mink, deer, muskrat, robins in abundance, mute swans geese and ducks that have overwintered, and a whole bank of skunk cabbage emerging purple and green.
Road open only to eastbound traffic on Miller, between Chapin and First. Several large trucks parked long Miller, with crews working on sewer system along that stretch. Folks at Knight’s Market report sharp drop in business.
String of five cars in a row driving on Detroit Street south of Kingsley, past Treasure Mart – each driver talking on a cell phone.
Frontloader scooping up snow from the Library Lot site and hefting it into a dump truck. Unclear where the truck will be delivering its frosty load.
A true sign of spring: The Stadium Dairy Queen opens today at noon.
Blooming snowdrop.
2 missionaries, out in the cold, approaching strangers in the dark to talk about God. There weren’t a lot of people around when they attempted to stop me a little after 7 p.m.
Double-decker Megabus heading south on State.
Using recycling bin to make snow blocks. [photo]
Packs of green-clad young men walking through intersection, not all in a straight line. Some are wearing hats.
The Detroit Free Press reports on a local woman whose letter to Barack Obama elicited a handwritten note from the president, who writes several such notes each week. The article quotes Michael Traugott, a UM communication studies professor, who said one of the motivations for Obama’s letter-writing is political: “Without casting any aspersions on his campaign, it would be interesting to track where the letters are going by state and congressional district. Are they going to districts with wavering or persuadable members of Congress on health care?” [Source]
Ann Arbor’s Huron Hills Golf Course has opened for the season, and Leslie Park Golf Course could open as early as March 22, according to the city’s website. [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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