First an update about those attractive new planters I was hoping for on my dead-end street. (I’ve always liked the way the trees meet overhead on my street. It’s better in summer, but you can still see it here.)

No planters. I guess they’re finished now. Same old chain too. (sigh)

Just across Bronson, PC Cyber has shut down their computer recycling store. Another computer outfit has come in and now it looks exactly the same.

This is the kind of little storefront that can really help a small business get on its feet. I remember it being an artist’s studio, a dog grooming salon, and a stone carver’s workshop, and once it was a coffee shop with one table. (That’s why it says “coffeeshop.”) It looks like something new is coming in. I wonder what it will be?

When I stopped in at Hartman’s to pick up a few things, I couldn’t resist some inexpensive laser items they had there.

I got this laser level for $3.99, and a laser pointer, $.99. This came with three watch batteries! How can they do that for $.99?.

Across from Hartman’s this dollar store has moved into the former Big Bud’s (RIP).

On Bank St. around MacLaren there is getting to be a glut of Brit-style pubs. The Royal Oak is the incumbent.

Now this place, Connor’s Gaelic Pub, has come in directly across from the Oak.

And on the other side of MacLaren is Biddy Mulligan’s Irish Pub.

But I’m not thirsty right now.

Down at the canal some of the geese were upside down, and the rest had their heads tucked underneath their arms. Maybe the geese know something we don’t.

Back at my street corner these folks shared a kiss, a kiss, a kiss to build a dream on.