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photo: bookish mailbox

A metal sculpture style mailbox featuring a kid sitting on a tree trunk reading a book. A dog is on the ground looking up at the kid. The mailbox is at the top of the tree trunk. The whole thing looks old and tarnished, with green corrosion on the tree part.

This is super cute! Most of the mailboxes around here are buried in concrete pillars, so it was fun finding this one.

📸 photo: oak tree

Looking upwards from the ground into the branches of a very large tree. The branches spread across the screen in a curve and are filled with leaves. The sun is shining through the leaves and highlighting those while the rest are a darker green in shadow.

This is (I think) a burr oak tree! Which is the “arbor” part of Ann Arbor (the other being the names of the two founders’ wives, who were both called Ann).

📸 photo: ornamental onion (and bee!)

Close-up of several purple puffball looking flowers, with a bee hunting for pollen in the middle

Wikipedia: Mouse Garlic (the variety of allium Pl@ntNet thinks this looks closest to)

Allium angulosum is a perennial herb up to 50 cm tall. Bulbs are narrow and elongated, about 5 mm in diameter. The plant produces a hemispherical umbel of small pink flowers on long pedicels.

Adding two new words to my dictionary, one sec…