This morning continued that to some extent - breakfast at my new favorite Ann Arbor eatery, Fleetwood Diner. I had hippie hash and two eggs and two slices of wheat toast and a tall glass of orange juice and am prepared to announce that this was the best breakfast of my life. (Seriously.) Jenelle like breaksfasts out but I'm not really a breakfast kinda guy; this has been a see-saw for us but the tide is turning in her favor. It was pretty easy to imagine us back in A2 in half a decade, eating hippie hash at Fleetwood before heading down to the stadium for a fall classic.

While we were eating we could see, through barely clean plexiglass windows, the foot of Liberty Street and the upscale restaurants on that block. It's amazing to think of the appeal added to a town by storefront details, we decided. Each establishment was a different paint color, each had a slightly different facade, each sign was unique, and each must benefit from the aesthetics of the other. The contrast, in my mind, was a store on the south side of Ludington St. called Quality Sew & Vac. Flat fronted, with 28" or so of blue tile under 6' plate glass windows with a flush door, all topped by a sky-blue and white striped valance and painted-block-letter sign. I guess things are more interesting with a little bit of relief in the facade, solid colors, a mix of glass and wood or mortar, and a dynamic sign.