Friday, July 26, 2019

Around our Town

In our Neighborhood: Burns Park, Ann Arbor

A Pot Farm!

In our neighborhood: a pot farm has just been planted on a formerly vacant side yard. I wondered what they were planning when they rototilled the lawn.

Butterflies!

In the neighborhood are many monarch butterflies. A nearby neighbor is especially encouraging them with milkweed plants,
and she has some cocoons that she's helping to grow.
This monarch was in our yard. It didn't even demand milkweed. I understand that many
national parks are encouraging the growth of milkweed to help out the endangered monarchs.
Butterflies are so popular that one artist at last week's art fair had made
a whole collage of life-sized 3-D butterfly sculptures.

Nearby: In Chelsea, MI

Chelsea, MI is around 20 miles away from our house. We go there for a variety of reasons, especially to eat at
a very nice restaurant called The Common Grill. Chelsea has some very nice murals: I've never posted this one before.

Depicted on the girl's dress are some Chelsea landmarks, including the grain elevators
of the Jiffy Mix plant which dominates the Chelsea "skyline."

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2 comments:

Sherry's Pickings said...

i love this mural Mae! it's really lovely. so how come they are growing pot? is it legal to do so? interesting...

Jeanie said...

Love the Chelsea painting -- that's really well done and so "personal."

I've been trying to get monarch pix all summer. I see them but never with my camera and by the time I grab it, they're gone!