…but are not limited to: the Black Angel…

…a Giant Sloth dressed as Harry Potter…

…trees with those creepy stick-on faces……dioramas of hungry prehistoric fish…

…quotations from the works of notable writers embedded, Walk of Fame-style, into the downtown pavement…

…and attendees……and attendees……and attendees…

…of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. The ones pictured here came to my “The Evilly Compounded, Vital I” talk yesterday morning, and for that I thank them. Thanks, too, to Caryl Pagel for inviting me!