All together now: awwww. (from apostropher, my source and yours for all things cute and spikey.)

Reflexion 2,
originally uploaded by libcat.

Shelley over at Burningbird has an interesting post on the internal conflict caused by the onset of Hurricane Dennis, which hit land on the Gulf today—it could be so devastating to people and property on the coast, but damn they need the water inland.

The best part of the post, however just might be the dragonfly.

I’m going to try to take up the challenge by KK to post a picture a day. Here’s the first.

Lower Town Panorama

Looking west from the parking lot where the Lower Town development will (eventually) stand. On the left is Kellogg Eye Center of UM Health System; on the right is Nielsen’s Flowers, in what was once a church (more recently a Hallmark store). 2 April 2005, 725a.

Are you fucking kidding me?

As the licence plate on one car downtown today read, “ITSREAL”. In a miniaturised preview of the Art Fair Horror to come in two weeks, roughly sixteen blocks of downtown were shut down today for the Rolling Sculture Car Show.

(As far as I can tell, the rest of this looks like shit in Explorer. But then, you should be using a real browser, anyway. . . .)

A *real* REO Speedwagon.
originally uploaded by libcat.

Remember REO Speedwagon? There was one of those there.

The Goodyear (B)LIMP, over Ann Arbor for the car show,
originally uploaded by libcat.

It was such a huge event, even the (b)limp was there.

An antique fire truck exhibited at Rolling Sculpture,
originally uploaded by libcat.

There was an antique firetruck, but I wanted the dog sitting in it.

A (stuffed) dalmatian placed in the antique fire truck.,
originally uploaded by libcat.

Then someone decided theirs should be a fire basset!

Fire basset!,
originally uploaded by libcat.

These’uns’re for Eric:

• Ann Arbor/Clean Cities exhibit:
  
  
  Ann Arbor’s GEM (General Electric Motor) electric car, at the Clean Cities Initiative exhibit at Rolling Sculpture,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  
• Volkswagen camperBUS!
  
  
  A VW Vanagon, with the camper-top up.,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  
  
  
  The VW Vanagon Camper-top from the front.,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  

  Probably should’ve turned the flash off for those. . .

On my way to work after, there was an odd cloud out behind the public library, and confused drivers and dead streetlights galore.

Fifth and William towards the end of the show,
originally uploaded by libcat.

Top picture is my front yard on Sunday, April 24—it was thirty degrees out and there was an inch or two of snow on the ground. Bottom pictures are of the clock at the TCF Bank building on Tuesday, June 7—at 7:15pm, it was still 90 degrees in downtown Ann Arbor, just six weeks later.

(ok, ok, forty-six days.)