Brother Frank is up visiting from his home in Pasadena, TX. Walking around near Lynde Motorsports, we came on this big art-cycle by Phil Pellerin. 

Work proceeds on repairs to the Elliot Street bridge that was undermined in flooding a couple years ago. 

When we ventured out Friday afternoon we wondered if Gallery Walk was even happening, because the streets seemed especially quiet. 

However, it turned out that we just didn’t get the memo… there was a big parade to officially open the river-themed art project that’s been taking shape over the last month or so.  It’s cool to have been here long enough to happen on a parade and run into half a dozen people you know. 

And the galleries were in fact open. 

And the opera club met as usual. Here, Elizabeth (who’s also an attorney and a circus performer) tackles an aria from Samson. 

And so, all is right with the world. 

No, I mean really how do you do it? These flowers look great and are inspiring us to dress up the front of our house to keep up with the Joneses. 

In addition to the new stairs, the parking structure got these cool glittery discs sometime in the last few days. I’ve seen things like this in various other places, such as at the entrance to the BART station at SFO, very cool. 

Lee rockin’ her Fendi, no wait Prada, no they’re Gucci, no wait ophthalmologist, shades on the recently completed staircase. 

One week post-procedure and all is well… Now it’s back to the glasses store!

Even though I walk by the courthouse almost every day, I had never seen this nice hermit thrush (at least I think it’s a hermit thrush, the state bird)
sculpture until getting ready for Saturday morning’s bike ride​.

We often take off from the courthouse parking lot, so I was riding around in circles while everybody got ready, and there it was!
The trees frosted into the window directly above, which are visible from further away, I also think are really cool… Very subtle, probably even nicer from inside.

Brattleboro offers a couple of ways to get rid of stuff that won’t fit in the can. One of the most popular is to let your landlord deal with it. And so I, in my capacity as a landlord, found myself in Corey’s truck making a trip to the transfer station…

Supposedly, our new curbside compost program has dramatically reduced landfill usage, which is great. Still, we make a lot of stuff!

On Tuesday night we joined other downtown residents and business owners at a “farewell to Frankie’s” party. Frankie’s Pizza, located in an odd bit of building scabbed onto a larger block in the Harmony parking lot, was an institution around these parts. It never recovered from Irene flooding and the Brooks House fire, and closed shortly after we moved here. 

Various dignitaries were on hand to cheer the impending demolition and celebrate the green space and little performance space that will go up in its place after the money is found. The big digger was a fun prop…

After three days the building is completely gone and the hole neatly filled.