Saw the power pole flyers up this morning and thought, "I hope they know about the free CHS Classifieds TM." Turns out, Kiwi the missing cockatiel's owners do know about our Lost & Found section. Help find Kiwi:

Yellow and gray cockatiel, answers to "Kiwi". Flew away Saturday April 19th.
REWARD PLEASE CALL 365-1620 or our cell phones - 240-5849 or 351-1136.

We've played this park image on our old CHS banner for all it's worth. Wesa's pretty pic of Volunteer Park served us well.

In early October, we planned a contest to replace the park image CHS banner. And we quickly canceled it after being, um, educated that contests are not the best way to achieve good design. Better, the comment masses said, was to hire an honest-to-goodness designer and set her to work designing her little heart out.

We were skeptical. The typical design budget for the typical neighborhood blog is approximately $0.35. We're not your typical neighborhood blog so we were able to up that a bit. But, really, it was out of the goodness of her heart helped by her knowledge that pumping out a super-hot CHS banner design would make her famous that we were able to hire our first ever CHS Design Intern -- EmilyP!

One morning meeting at Fuel Coffee and a few e-mails later, EmilyP submitted five proposals. Here is the CHS feedback she received at the time so that you can a) enjoy our version of the creative...

This bird landed on my house this morning. It is not a stork. A sign? Thanks, neighbor, for the pic.

Have you seen little critters like this flying around your part of Capitol Hill?

Photo: Christopher Boffoli/Westseattleblog.com

They have been spotted spotted in West Seattle too, it turns out. I've been seeing them in the afternoon over the past week, kept meaning to write about them but never got around to it. But now that I know we're part of a city-wide infestation, it is my duty to inform.

Any flyfisherpeople out there identify this little gnat? They're blue and fuzzy and seem to hatch in the late afternoon sun. But that also might just be when I'm wandering the sidewalks, kicking fall leaves and daydreaming along in the sun looking for bugs, you know?

• The future of parking (among other things) for our urban village.
• Like Victrola's current photo exhibition?
  
• The Stranger Intern crashes a neighborhood wedding at St. Joe's.
  
• Yet another restaurant spin-off -- Restaurant Zoe's little sister coming to Capitol Hill?
• Neighborhood graffiti isn't all bad. More CHS street art.
• Coyote sightings data misused. On the rise? Compared to when? Sigh.