Guest Post: I Heart Ann Arbor

Abigail's blog, gus & other things, consistently reminds me how much I love architecture, a home-cooked meal, and dogs, and as you can see, her gardening skills evoke all sorts of envy.
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When trying to think of my favorite thing about Ann Arbor, aside from the wonderful friends and neighbors we are lucky enough to have here, I boiled it down to two things: geeks and gardens.

Like all college towns, Ann Arbor has way more than its fair share of folks with master’s degrees and PhDs and I am just endlessly fascinated at the things my wonderfully geeky neighbors know. Before we moved here I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a psycholinguist, and now I have a friend who is one. (Although, to be honest, I’m still not all that clear on what she does.)

My other favorite thing about Ann Arbor is that this is where I learned to garden.
Growing up I couldn’t have cared less about plants and I didn’t even mow my parent’s lawn. And before we finally landed here, I moved around so often I couldn’t keep houseplants alive and was convinced I had a black thumb.

But Ann Arbor is full of gardeners and it didn’t take more than a few months of living here for me to become inspired. Maybe inspired isn’t the right word… How about obsessed?

[graduation photo courtesy of library of congress]