...that was our afternoon.
The cropping came first. All the males in the family get their hair cut at the same place (Kuts for Kids [small print: and adults]) on the same day. Here is little Silas being shorn. He is being pacified with mouth candy (lollipop) and mind candy (Casper the Ghost video).
Then we went shopping at what we will probably always call "the new New Seasons" (on Division Street). We had lunch there and went wandering through the bioswale (fancy word meaning ditch & plantings to collect parking lot water runoff).
Following Silas' brief nap at home, we went to Iron Artist 2004, run by SCRAP, the School and Community Reuse Action Project, which we, the magpie family, love.
They had teams competing to make sculptures with various themes, using a pile of stuff from SCRAP: foam and fabric bits, old furniture, window frames, feathers, bottle caps, whatever! That was pretty cool to watch, but the best part of the evening was March Fourth. Dozens of people arrived on their big red fire truck and started playing music, mostly on brass instruments and drums,
and singing (in unison, at particular times), and most of all, dancing... especially several people on stilts.
Very neat.
(David posted more pictures and commentary.)