Here's Donald Wardlaw, the Bank of Richmond building renovation architect, on my approval of the colors the arrival of Shellie Bourgault's Hidden City Cafe.

Glad you find the colors more pleasing. I have not had any doubts that they would get better with time. Wait till you see it with Shellie's restaurant inside. Her place is going to glow and draw customers like a lamp draws bugs in the night.

What will the neighbors think? Will they answer with bright lights of their own?

• "Hidden City Cafe signs for the Bank of Richmond building," Talk of the Point, July 26 2003