My husband and I took a little “loop” through the Depot Town area of Ypsilanti today after enjoying the BOGO pizza buffet deal at Aubree’s. The temps were in the upper 60s, it was slightly breezy, and the sun was shining for most of our walk. The first really adorable thing I saw was a black dog (looked to be a Lab) – fetching a stick for its human. Sounds kind of boring, huh? Well, this “stick” happened to be about six feet long – and about three inches thick! The dog was happily carrying that tree limb up a steep bank back to its owner. I did not photograph this, because I didn’t want to have to also photograph the humans.

While we were on our walk, I wanted to check in on “Mother Goose,” who is sitting on a nest right in the middle of the Huron River:

You can’t really see “Mother Goose” in this photo, but this is where she’s nesting – on an island in front of the “tridge.” We also saw some people sunbathing on a dock right by the river:

I reached the pinnacle of giddiness when we were hanging out on the pedestrian walkway/bridge that traverses the Huron River between Riverside Park and Michigan Avenue. I stood up on a foot-tall bridge support, and my brain decided that I needed to have a Damn Yankees song in my head. Anyone remember them? And that song was High Enough (I’m hard-pressed to name any of their other songs). It’s a cheesy power ballad, these lyrics pretty much say it all:

I don’t wanna hear about it anymore
It’s a shame I’ve got to live
without you anymore
There’s a fire in my heart
A pounding in my brain
It’s driving me crazy

Those weren’t the lyrics in my head when I was standing on that foot-high chunk of cement (yeah…like I NEED to be taller). I could only remember these lyrics from the song:

Can you take me high enough…

Damn Yankees – Michael Cartellone (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Jack Blades (Night Ranger), Ted Nugent and Tommy Shaw (Styx).

Here’s an obligatory selfie of me from today’s walk, while in the midst of spring fever-induced giddiness:

Michigan Avenue is behind me.