city screenprints

As you all know, my wonderful husband is a city planner and I'm a landscape architect and we're both pretty urban obsessed. We like public transit, bus stops, railroad tracks, old buildings, beautiful street trees and public spaces. We also really like maps... Justin especially. Sometimes I catch him staring for hours at our atlas or scanning google earth like it's his job (haha, well sometimes that is his job!) So, when it comes to fun city maps, we are always on the lookout. Tonight we stumbled across a pretty cool COLUMBUS city map and just had to share with all our ohio friends. It's designed and made locally from: these are things. It reminded us of the Chicago Ork poster we bought a couple months back... pretty cool!

wilson station

Our local red line stop will be getting some much needed attention this year! While the station has seen its share of ups and downs over the years, I would assume it's in its worst state currently, so this is great news! Check out the progression of the station over the past 80 years... I for one will not be sad to see Popeyes go!

Plants!

I've been hoping to get some color out on our deck for quite sometime now and today Justin and I finally had the chance to buy a couple things for our planters. There is a cute urban garden center just up Clark St. called Gethsemane. It was a quite a popular place this weekend but fun to browse around their gardens of shrubs, flowering trees, annuals and perennials.

Since our deck is mostly shade we decided on these white begonias with purple coleus. I'm interested to see how they handle the true lack of sun. We'll see!