Diane sends along these pics of the latest Decatur Signal box being decorated at the Glenlake Park entrance as part of resident Larry Holland’s Decatur Box Project.

She ran into artist Krista Jones decorating this signal box over the weekend and recounted the story of “Hooty” – the owl the DM community helped save back in 2009 after local resident Chris Billingsley sent in a pic of the injured owl near this location at the side of the road.  Diane and I saw Hooty off when he was released back into the wild at Decatur Cemetery a month after his accident. (One of the cooler things the DM community has done collectively, I must say. )

Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, it’s nice to now have this reminder of good ol’ Hooty near the spot where he was rescued all those years ago. Thanks Krista!  And thanks Decatur Box Project!

Hooty would be so proud!

Former Decatur City Commission candidate James Radford writes on Flickr

Coolest lunch break ever.

So, on my way back to work after lunch at Colony Square, I’m about to cross over 14th street, and out of nowhere this enormous bird just falls out of the sky and into the middle of the road with a thud. Its a huge hawk and it fell right on the line between the lanes of traffic. Me and these two other guys see it, and are like, holy crap, what should we do? Its still moving. And cars are whizzing past it threatening to run over it at any moment. I think it must have hit the King and Spalding building, which is made of reflective glass.

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