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Back for its eighth year, World Information Architecture (IA) Day Ann Arbor is the annual one-day conference created by the Information Architecture Institute and produced by local volunteers.
Organized by School of Information students at the University of Michigan, this year’s event with the theme “Design for Difference” will be held Saturday, February 23, 2019. Continue reading World Information Architecture Day Ann Arbor Returns on February 23
Eating out this weekend with my family at The Blue Nile Ethiopian restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan transported me back a few decades.
I smiled as I remembered the restaurant’s first location in Kerrytown, just north of downtown Ann Arbor.
Memories flooded back of eating at the woven mesob tables on the first floor of the renovated house in Kerrytown.
The Blue Nile was one of several houses renovated into international cuisine restaurants that opened within months of each other.
I was working in Ann Arbor at the time.
My husband and young son would meet me after work at The Blue Nile where we enjoyed the Ethiopian feast, eating our food with our fingers using the injera bread to scoop up the delicious vegetable, chicken, and meat dishes.
When we ate dinner there this weekend, we shared stories of our dinners there years ago, remembering the tables at the old place, eating in the upstairs when they expanded the restaurant in Kerrytown, and enjoying cups of the cinnamon-flavored Ethiopian tea.
This week’s photo of The Blue Nile’s overhead lighting looked to me as if the woven shapes were hand-painted with the red, green, and yellow colors of the Ethiopian flag.
Beautiful!
The last few evenings have been perfect—relatively cool temperatures with light breezes—for walks at nearby parks.
Birds singing joyfully, a Baltimore Oriole pair chasing each other through the tree branches, a Mute Swan swims near the shoreline, its cygnets closely following in tight formation.
Beautiful golden light shining through the green foilage of the trees along the Huron River at Furstenberg Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan topped off my walk in the woods this weekend.