July 22

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On the 22nd I had lunch with a friend I'd run into at Art Fair.  Someone I had known in the early 80s, but hadn't had lunch with in decades.  It was good to catch up!

Planters outside Back Alley Gourmet.

Begonia. 

Walking home.  My buddy K. suggested that this tall plant with the big leaves at the bottom and the yellow flowers at the top is prairie dock, and I think she's right.  Thanks, K!

The flowers aren't very big, for the size of the plant.  About the size of ordinary black-eyed susans......

Geranium.

This nice-looking path goes between two houses.  You can't really see the path, almost hardly, but you can see the plantings and the wall beside the path.  I like the red leaves of the maple, combined with the conical evergreens and the chartreuse of the low plants.

This used to be a camera factory, and now it is condos.  I don't know if the patio with all the flowers is part of someone's unit, or if there is public space there.  I've never been inside the building; I'd like to see what the units are like.

Green house with red door, on Liberty.

Murray Ave.  Such a cute little street, with cute little houses.  Much more imaginative and interesting than my street..........

I think most of the properties have flowers in the lawn extensions.  (On my street, I'm the only one with flowers in the extension........)

This stuff smells wonderful.......  It's a vine.........  Is it a honeysuckle, I wonder?  It's perennial in our Michigan climate.

Daylily.

Really big daylily.

I don't know what this is.

But isn't it wild and crazy in the middle?

Susans and shadows.

Daylily.

This is why they call them coneflowers.

Oooh.  Aren't these cool?  Coils of roofing nails, sitting in a box, waiting for use.

The skinniest red daylily I know of.

All I am saying...........

My red daylily.

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