(Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend any of these great events — not even the SkyCottage tour! — because I will be in the wilds of west Texas, watching my baby sister get hitched.)
However, I once wrote about the tiny triangle park at Belvedere and Madison where the block party is. I believe the city was thinking of selling it at the time. Don't know what ever happened with that.
What I do know is that after I wrote something about how those small pocket parks can provide a nice break in the urban landscape — former council member Madeleine Cooper Taylor had said "I may not stop. I may drive by, but they offer a visual resting place" — someone sent me a picture of a homeless woman passed out in that park.
They included their own caption, too: something like "Woman rests in Belvedere Park."
With apologies to the passed-out woman, it still makes me laugh.
