Julie Weatherbee

@juliewbee.bsky.social

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I find lost things, watch Ann Arbor City Council, and I like squirrels, tech, and city living. Change is fine. Primarily pedestrian.

A bar cart on the side of the road. There are two bottles of tequila and one of Disaronno.
A garage with large walnut trees next to it.
A very waterlogged bowl of watermelon sitting on a concrete planter box.
A plastic container with a piece of Zingerman’s hummingbird cake sitting in the middle of the sidewalk.
A newspaper article from 1972, talking about how residents feel about growth in Ann Arbor. It could be from today, only all the women are called Mrs. Husband’s Name.
A wrapped meatstick lying on the sidewalk in front of Michigan Stadium.
Jeff Hayner on Mayor Taylor’s Facebook saying “I don’t think they (Planned Parenthood) do enough abortions. I can think of several they’ve missed right here in Ann Arbor.”
A shopping list on a Post-It note in the snow. The list is: rubbed sage, smoked paprika (not hot), ground ginger, and peppercorns.
A white bean soup with chunks of ham, carrots, and parsley.
A golf ball lying next to the curb on the other side of four lanes of traffic from a golf course.
A box of tasty-looking pizza with half untouched and a few other pieces flopped in the box.
A full, unopened bottle of Modelo beer lying in the grass under a tree.
A Swedish fish candy lying on the sidewalk in a park. In the distance is a beautiful autumnal scene.
A large cross necklace (probably for a costume) lying on a pile of leaves next to the sidewalk.
A fancy glass sitting on a concrete curb/planter outside of the IM building.
A brown leather belt embossed with eagle heads and with a wolf on the metal buckle. It is hanging from a street tree.
A gallon of blue drink on the sidewalk extension, mostly gone, with Baby on BORG written on it.
Two Detroit Lions rally towels lying on the sidewalk.
An adorable scene of cute cartoon woodland animals around a table, crafting a tree. There are bookshelves full of books behind them.
A Michigan Medicine wheelchair near the sidewalk facing into a tree.
A few of the Ann Arbor and beyond skyline with a billion trees and a few small buildings visible
A stuffed elephant sitting on a park bench. A large stuffed snake is curled around the elephant’s lap.
A weedy planting area next to a parking lot.
A lovely big cabbage lying in the middle of the sidewalk.
A parking lot with a large cement planter full of plants that are gone by, are invasive, or have died. In front of it is a dead tree.
A parking lot, in perpetuity. One sad tree in the front and two dying trees past it. Also some cars and a few small buildings on the periphery.
Text from Page 11 of the A2 Township Master Plan update that says that Ann Arbor building more densely has placed less demand on outlying townships.
A cheerful Vote Yes on A & B for your downtown library sign.
Lots of scooters and bikes parked outside a construction site.
A brightly colored child/dog toy ball in a driveway behind a DTE truck.
Dropping a ballot into the city hall ballot box.
A sparrow standing on railroad tracks, eating spilled field corn.
An intersection in downtown Ann Arbor where two of the houses have “Pause the Plan” signs in their yards.
A room of people at a meeting looking at Tom Stulberg in his cheap top hat.
A bag of salsify root sitting on the edge of a downtown planter.
The Goodyear blimp against a blue sky
Sunglasses on the arm of a bench. In the back you can see a large garden of flowers.
Three empty picture frames on the sidewalk in front of several large rose bushes.
A bike rack full of bikes.
A shiny red apple sitting on a handrail in the Relax Ststion’s sidewalk garden full of iris. Argus Farm Stop’s bright yellow building is in the background.
20 gallons of milk sitting outside a locked door downtown.
The view over the second floor balcony at Dominick’s showing an Italian flag and empty parking spaces.
A pink sneaker, lying on the ground.
A 3-story brick apartment building next to 2, 2-story+attic houses. There are lots of trees.
A beer bong lying in the street next to the curb.
A bag of small pita bread on the sidewalk next to a lightpost.
The view looking out a basement window. There are daffodils in front, then you can see a 2-story house and then sort of see a 3-story building behind it. The sky is blue and expansive.
A sidewalk next to a 7-Eleven. A pair of black Hoka sneakers is sitting next to the sidewalk.
A street corner by the bus station with a mandarin orange in the street in the front and another mandatin orange on the sidewalk in the distance.
Ken Burns Doesn't Live Here Anymore I walk down Wellington Court where the sounds of long-gone children playing baseball echo. That sounds so posh, doesn't it? Wellington Court. Reality is a street built before zoning that is mostly tiny houses without parking in the backyards of bigger houses. We don't build them like this anymore, bemoan the neighbors from their million dollar homes next door. Although every time we try, some famous son (who moved away in 1971) says slow down, don't change my city so fast, peace man, Black Lives Matter. So we stop, reconsider, and congratulate ourselves that we have, once again, saved our city. But Ken Burns doesn't live here anymore, and if you aren't rich neither can you.
A sparkly wand with a star on top lying on a dirt driveway. It is disassembled in a plastic bag.
A group of young people holding jugs of “beverages.”
A view of a one-story garage, with a two-story building behind it and a four-story building (that you can barely see) behind that. I labeled the 4-story building with pink pen.
A stick for picking up trash, hanging in a tree next to the sidewalk. The Criteo building is behind it.
Two unopened bottles labeled “Super Colon Cleanse” lying on the sidewalk.
A bratwurst in a bun, wrapped in aluminum foil, sitting on a bench in the sun.
A pair of black leather stiletto heeled boots sitting on top of a dumpster.
A pair of white sneakers on the sidewalk extension.
A brown banana lying in the grass next to the sidewalk. You can see First United Methodist Church in the background.
An orange construction barrel in a tree outside of the South Quad dorm.