The beautiful garden at the other end of my old block. Phlox.
Wet phlox.
Zinnias and pink/purple phlox in the beautiful garden. And a monarch butterfly! On an orange zinnia, near the center of the next image.
Closer crop of the above.
Even closer.
Carefully we ooched around to a different angle, working not to scare the butterfly away........ It is still on that orange zinnia, pretty much in the center of the next image......
I am seeing more monarchs this year, and more milkweed. I hope we can save these guys from the ill effects of humans spraying more and more poison everywhere............... (Hope we can save ourselves from it, too. Spraying poison everywhere just isn't a good idea........... Not, as they say, sustainable............)
More zinnias in the beautiful garden.
Closer.
All the digital cameras I've had have gotten really excited by this sort of magenta color. They oversaturate it, and make details harder to see. Believe it or not, I have taken both the saturation and the brightness down a bit in the next image.
There is a lot going on in the center of a zinnia!
Hibiscus. Even though there are a number of these, here and there in Ann Arbor, they always strike me as "too tropical" for this climate. Some of them actually are hardy and make it through the winter with no protection.
I believe this is impatiens.
I had heard of Wayzgoose, but only in Tacoma, WA. When I saw that there would be one here in Ann Arbor, I was interested.
Wikipedia: A wayzgoose (or wayz-goose, waygoose or wayzegoose) was at one time an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew's Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or the printers on a newspaper.
Tacoma, Washington holds an annual Wayzgoose event dubbed a "printer's celebration". This event, which includes a large-scale relief printing project using a steamroller, is designed to get the community interested and involved in the art of printmaking.
I read about the Ann Arbor wayzgoose in library materials. Most of it was at the downtown library. There were also parts at Hollander's (which has letterpress printers, and maybe other kinds of printers?), and at the Art Center. (Do we call them printers? Probably not? I think a "printer" was the person who used the ... printing machine?)
After our usual farmers' market and then breakfast on Saturday, August 25, I walked around and looked at printing and printed products. I was in the basement at Hollander's for the first time. They have a lot of printing machines, I don't know how many different kinds. (Alas, no steamroller printing in A2.)
The library has a lot of different ways to print things. They have letterpress (not sure how many printing machines), they have stamps, they have silk screen. (They also have 3D printers, which I expected to see in use, but did not see. So many toys, so little time.............)
The library was printing cheap tote bags and letting us each have one. They also have a drier (that seemed to be hot but didn't blow) so we could have our freshly-printed bag get dried rather than letting us wander around smearing blue paint on everything............
On the main level at the library there were a lot of small printing businesses set up at tables. A few were doing demos, and I believe all of them brought their work to sell. So many people working in so many different media!
I was glad to see all the different things people were doing.
The library has classes on using the various methods of printing for which the library has tools. I'm torn between wanting to learn how to use allthetools, and thinking I should stay focused on what I already know how to do (and already have the tools and materials to do)..................
I say again -- so many toys, so little time!
I waked home through the park. One duck and two turtles in this next image.
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