Drunk boat ... and more flowers.

The midsummer drunk boat season is well underway.  Any weekend day (or night) is full of the massively amplified whump-whump-whump music that the natives who board these things seem to prefer.

But the garden is still nice to look at.  I used to think these were dandelions — turns out, not so much.

This is sow thistle.  It's actually edible — best when young (bfore it grows any spikes) and decent in a salad.  Nearby were these:

I'm not yet sure what those are, but I'll keep an eye on them.  The children's garden there has a bunch of these taller than I am (which is no real feat):

And there are still many daisy-like things in bloom:

The shorter spikey purple flowers I spotted earlier in the week are a little more open now:

Liatris spiacata, aka Prairie Gay Feather
or Dense Blazing Star

And these trollius (globe flowers) are still in bloom, too: