t-shirt art.

FOR THE LOVE OF T-SHIRTS.

(an art mural in the city of Rochester. ArtWALK)

candid.

Candid is playing in Rochester this weekend. Yippee! They are playing downtown at the East End Festival on Friday night.

Candid and I have a long history together. I went to high school with all the musicians and I even played in the band with them for a short while. (the violin for any curious readers)

I missed them when they performed at the last East End fest, so we will definitely make it out this time. Hopefully dancing right alongside 'festival guy', whom I haven't seen since we went to the Taste of Rochester.

new shelter.

I've been taking a different route biking to work than where the bus takes me. Traveling down University Ave - I noticed that there are new, fun looking bus shelters going up. I tried to take a picture last week, but it came out rather blurry as I sped by.

Googling it - I saw they have been planning these new bus shelters for some time now, and that there are 3 new shelters in total. I've seen the one near the MAG and Gleason Works, but not the third. Hmmmm. I found the design prototype for it online, and it looks pretty FUN (below) - who wouldn't want to stand under an umbrella in the rain?!

Guess we'll get to check them out in detail at this year's ARTWalk Alive in September!

riding the bus.

Today I woke up to RAIN which meant no bike riding to work. My only backup plan was catching the bus for the first time EVER.

I have to admit - I was pleasantly surprised! It was quicker than expected, clean and full of NORMAL people like me just trying to get from point A to point B. I've now purged all bus-riding stereotypes.

There are no non-stop buses to my job, so if I keep this up, I'll have to get an all day pass. With a bus transfer and paying 'per' leg, riding to/from work would be more expensive than GAS (if I had my Jeep) ;-)

taste of Rochester.

Tonight we went to a Taste of Rochester. The music was good, however I noted not from Rochester. (boo) Some good eats, but we had to pass on food vendors like Uno's and Papa John's. I'm sure we could have come up with more Rochester focused eateries than them.

Lots of foodies were out, gobblin up goodies - so was 'festival guy'. He is this shirtless dude who dances at all the local rochester festivals. He was dancing so fast he should be called 'blurry festival guy'. I didn't know he is already famous, I took a short video of him and when I got home I saw him already on You Tube.

I passed on the garbage plate (for once) and stuck to the fried dough. I had will power of steel, because I also went home without having a chocolate almond cone from Abbott's. Then again, there's always tomorrorow.....

flowers.

For the first time all year, I went to Flower City Days at the Rochester Public Market last weekend. I can't believe how late in the season I got there!

That said, the weather was NICE and cool for it and I went early to beat the crowds. Without McAllister as my runner or a shopping cart, I had to make many trips back and forth to the car. As the morning went on, I found it tough to remember all flowers piling up in the car!

I usually pick up all my annuals here each year to make my hanging baskets. Which I did the rest of Sunday morning. I also am testing my gardening skills b/c I picked up a Japanese Maple tree as well. The price was right and I've been eyeing one since last summer, but it will be a tough guy to lose to my not-so-green thumbs. I'm off to research tips on how / where to plant it!

Flower City Days' last weekend is this Sunday - so if you're looking for some gardening supplies, head on out!!