Stopped. Watched.

Tour of West Park at dusk. Inventory includes Peepside Apartments [photo 1], a mother duck sitting on some ducklings [photo 2] a frog [photo 3], an apparent replacement of the shuffleboard court with a petanque court [photo 4], and a notice of the upcoming city tennis tournament at the tennis courts [photo 5].

A photographer shoots photos of a wedding party in front of the Ingalls Mall fountain, while a couple and their dogs play in the water behind them. [photo]

Almost more people than peonies at the Arb today. [photo]

Barbie hot tub party at Water Hill Yard Sale. [photo]

New sign for Blank Slate Creamery is installed on the building. Opening soon. [photo]

Future site of Argus Farm Stop has three color swatches painted on the side of the building. I’d go with the yellow. [photo]

Dumpster with lettering: “Think inside the box.” [photo]

Gorgeous day for the kickoff of Sonic Lunch at Liberty Plaza, with Stepdad performing for a large crowd. [photo] Long line at General’s Mobile Coney food truck, parked on Liberty. [photo]

Summer is officially here, the marigolds are going in at Seventh & Liberty. [photo]

Even in rain, peonies are looking good. [photo] Multilingual sign [photo] and one to promote free June 8 concert in The Arb [photo].

Open parking lot being resurfaced for full third day. Fleet of huge trucks and carriers and five special machines a dozen men working.

Deer in front yard.

Is the fountain officially out of commission? Still haven’t seen any water thus year and I visit often. What happened and who can explain this? [photo 1]

This downtown apartment is suddenly missing a wall and part of the ceiling. You can see daylight as it is also missing some important window parts as well. [photo 1] [photo 2]

Replacement of streetlight poles continues – north of Liberty. [photo 1] [photo 2] [photo 3] On Saturday, poles south of Liberty were replaced.

Fully stocked Little Free Library. [photo]

New lampposts were getting installed when I rode past earlier this morning. Looks like the result of the morning’s work was replacement of most of the posts between William and Liberty. [photo 1] Not yet replaced are lampposts north of Liberty. Rust at the bases – which prompted the replacement project – is clearly visible. [photo 2] [photo 3]

Political wrangling between the Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority and the city of Ann Arbor over which entity would pay for the project likely won’t be remembered by many people.

The very worst stretches of lower Newport have been been smoothed over with asphalt. Many hazards yet remain. One limitation of this (appreciated!) quick fix is that cars will rut the patches since the road has not been closed to let the asphalt harden. [photo 1] [photo 2] [photo 3] Nearby parts of Huron River Drive have been smoothed over as well. Don’t know if this is about tomorrow’s Dexter-Ann Arbor run – or the work of a Ward 1 councilmember. Imperfect as this is, it is a vast improvement. [previous related item]

The new Blimpy Burger is starting to look like a reality! [photo]

Sign posted on wall outside of former Kuroshio restaurant in the Pretzel Bell building, announcing that Mezzevino will open on June 18. [photo] The Main Street Ventures restaurant is hiring.

So long to the wreckage of Happy’s Pizza. [photo]

Leaving the school board meeting at 11:30 p.m. (They haven’t gotten to the budget). A cop car has stopped a truck [photo] 

Newly paved bus stop. [photo]

Poppies. [photo]

Person in minivan flinging copies of Ann Arbor News ad section onto lawns and into driveways.

Street musician: saxophone on northeast corner.

Bicycle versus AAATA #5A bus ends in a dead heat at State & Packard.

Long line at recycling drop-off station. Washtenaw County sheriff’s deputy community service work detail made super quick work of unloading my bicycle trailer load of glass and Styrofoam. Thanks!

People lined up 826 Michigan for Dave Eggers book signing. [photo]

All better. A-1 Asphalt came by today [photo 1] and repaired the previous repair [photo 2]. They left a cone this time.  They came, again, on refuse day, but after trash and recycling (compost truck yet to come). Still, I’m not taking any chances [photo 3].