Cleome, performing shadow puppetry.
This is one reason I love Ann Arbor.
I still would rather eat inside, but Washington Street has less traffic than, say, Main Street, and the plants and umbrellas make this more pleasant than it would be otherwise.
Heading west on Washington.
Hmmm. What's all this. A whole bunch of trucks, filling up the little lot at the corner of Washington and First?
Oh wait. I read about it in the paper -- Hollywood has come to Ann Arbor.
Yep, I'm right, it's the movies, being made right here in A2.
They're filming Youth in Revolt.
Two movies are actually being filmed in the area right now. Whip It, and Drew Barrymore, who is directing, have gotten more press (Drew is charming, we are told, and has been very nice to the extras), but it's Youth in Revolt in which Ann Arbor's Liberty Street will stand in for Berkeley, California. (Michael Cera made front-page news by signing some tshirts. It's a slow-news summer, I guess.....)
My daughter heard someone yell "CUT!" when she walked by all the excitement.
I didn't see (or hear) anything actually happen.
Ok. Walking on west, on Washington.
Weed with fuzzy points. By train tracks.
Queen Anne's Lace.
That lovely thing above turns into this cool and interesting object.
Excellent grass seed, hanging over a brand new curb.
Daylily.
Another daylily.
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4 comments:
I have always had a 'thing' for Queen Annes Lace.
I would try to gather some from the roadsides, as a kid, but those are the toughest stems on a flower I have ever experienced.
I used to 'cut' them off with my teeth, so QAL is as much a taste as a fragrance or a visual for me.
Do they have a carroty taste?
I have never bitten one.....
Not carroty, but rather strong. Not bitter.
Can't describe it, but I know it when I smell them...
I was going to say the taste reminds me of black eyed susans :)
They have tough stems, too!
Interesting. :-)
I have been thinking that the definitive way for me to know the identity of that tree outside my office is to go damage it. :-) Walnuts have a very distinctive smell....
They kill nearly everything that has the temerity to try to grow under them, so one weeds them out of the yard rather emphatically.
I know it's the juglone that does in the other plants; not sure if that's what I smell when I am chopping them....
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