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Looking Downtown Menlo Park 2011-12-25_13-27 in front of Peet's.

The city of Menlo Park sent out a public notice this week announcing that the hours of the Downtown Block parties are changing and in that announcement, I derived the dates for the Menlo Park Summer Concert Series in Fremont Park.

The Menlo Park Downtown Block Parties usually mark the start and end of the Summer Concert Series, where they shut down Santa Cruz Ave going through downtown and really break it out for the night.

This year, the party hours are being extended so that now the Downtown Block Party will start at 3p.m. and go to 11p.m..

The dates of the block party, which earmark the first and last weeks of the Summer Concert Series are Wednesday, June 20, 2012 & Wednesday, August 15th, 2012.

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For quite some time I was trying to catch my cats yawning but have not been so lucky to have the right timing.  (Caveat:  I’m talking about using my smartphone’s installed camera.  You know the ones, you hit click, the camera thinks about it for a second… the screen acts like it’s taking the picture, then the whatever was happening a second after that is what shows up.)

Well yesterday I was going to get some nice outdoor portraits of Willow and as usual, the moment I whip out the camera, she tends to move, change postures or something.  At one point, she decided she was tired of my “imaging” of her royal highness, and to evidence her exhausted patience, decided to yawn while I was snapping the pic.

HA!  Turned out to be perfect timing actually and I finally got my yawning cat picture!  So now the fun begins…  what caption should we give her?

Me, I suggest thinking the Tarzan jungle cry…  but any other ideas would be most entertained!

Cat Yawn Picture

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Sad Day To Be At The Vet Office

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Seth Casteel Awesome Underwater Dog Photos

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Downtown Menlo Park Was Deserted For One Happy Day

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Photo of the Week: A Holiday Greeting from Photographer Dave Nielsen

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Dave Nielsen photo image, Rainy Pass Larches

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Happy Holidays to One and All & Thank You

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Avatar Lawsuit Triggers A BruSimm Thought on The Competitive Business of Ideas

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Some things in this lawsuit seem interesting, the least of which is timing and such. But no matter what happens there, know that ideas are hard to hang on to…

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