Painting Sighting

If you've been wondering what all those paintings that have been going up on telephone poles around Wallingford look like, Greg sent in a photo of one he recently spotted that we haven't shown before: a href="http://www.wallyhood.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/poleart.JPG"> On Wallingford Ave, between 36th and 37th.

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JSIS Playground Improvements

At the risk of turning Wallyhood into the PNN (Park News Network), we share with you one more story today about park improvements around the 'hood, this one to the playground on the south end of the John Stanford school. The story starts off a bit like an after-school special: some years ago, a precocious 5th grader (as all the fifth graders at that school seem to be) approached the principal with a complaint: the playground was too small, and as…

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Garage Sales, Open Houses, Oh My!

In an attempt to add even more nosy neighbor awesomeness to our joint Wallingford - Green Lake garage sale map, the intrepid folks over at My Green Lake have added Open Houses to the map. View Wallingford / Green Lake Garage Sales & Open Houses in a larger map Apologies for not posting this last night. If you've got something you want to see listed here next week, drop us a line!

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Shrine

Happened by this wondrous bit of lawn art at 42nd and Corliss today. Mooskimo wonders whether there's a secret parade in the works? Midnight on the new moon, perhaps?

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Water, Water, Water

In years past, we propped the thin branches of our peach tree to prevent the fat balls of juicy fruit from snapping them. This year, what with the lack of rain, the thick thatch of grass around its base and our surfeit of neglect, we have only shriveled little hairy things growing, roughly the size of a dinosaur brain. This year may be lost, but in the hopes of saving our tree for next year, we took Nancy Merrill's advice, excavated…

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Lullaby Moon Report

We apologize for not making a bigger deal out of it. Lullaby Moon, the roving full moon performance that made its way to Gas Works Park this past Wednesday, was an absolute treasure and a treat. When we arrived at 8:30 pm, the show was already fully underway, and the entire south side of Kite Hill was packed tight. The performance straddled land and sea, with moon drunk rabbits, alchemist cats, clock children and more dancing and frolicking on shore and…

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