I'll get back to my life soon, I promise. Stuff is going on in it is all. Meanwhile, though, there was some good news out of Grand Rapids. To quote an article on WLNS's web site written by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's favorite newswriter Skyler Ashley, ``Bald eagles, a snow leopard, a coati and a sloth are settling in at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids''. It's thrilling to hear about, especially as they're the nearest coatis to me just now. (The Saginaw Zoo used to have coatis but they're not listed on either their web site or Wikipedia.)
Less thrilling: the headline of the article is ``John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids welcomes bald eagle, snow leopard, sloth''. And the article doesn't toss off a word about what coatis are; we can assume bald eagles, snow leopards, and sloths are common knowledge but I know coatis aren't, given how long I was having friends of many years' acquaintance telling me they just saw coatis on a nature documentary and didn't know we were real, they thought I'd made them up. On the other hand, the photo with the article was of coatis, and that did give a one-sentence explanation. The picture's credited Getty Images so I doubt it's the John Ball Zoo's, but the picture does make an excellent case for how much we've got it going on.
And now I finish off with a last couple pictures from the walk around bunnyhugger's parents' neighborhood.
Peering onto the college campus past the coffee-cake landscape. I like the way the colors blend in this picture.
Rust Belt Ramen? Also as I was walking past a chartered bus came up to drop off people. The bus line suggested they were an Indiana-Ohio company but I can't figure how anyone would ride all the way up from either state for ramen however good it is. I assume it's a bus from somewhere more local but then why couldn't someone local find a chartered bus company from somewhere not a minimum an hour away? Seems like a waste of the driver's time at minimum.
Do you know what time it was when I took this photograph? Because it was 6:15.
I don't know the story behind this little stretch of parallel tracks to the main railroad tracks in town but I like looking down them.
Trivia: Margaret E Knight was paid royalties, capped at US$25,000, for the use of her 1879 patent for an improved paper-bag-making machine by her partner, the Eastern Paper Bag Company of Hartford, Connecticut. Source: Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design, Henry Petroski.
Currently Reading: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.
