The wildflowers continue to share their beauty, despite lack of rain, and hotter than normal September days.
It's been a HOT summer, period.
And so, as we transition into the gentler days of autumn I share with you the last few flowers of summer........
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The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian's bluest fringes
Are curing in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedges haunt their harvest,
In every meadow's nook;
And asters by the
brooksideMake asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes' sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
With yellow butterflies.
By all those lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer's best of weather,
And autumn's best of cheer.
September ~ Helen Hunt Jackson 1830-1885![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUVUWmxooYE/TJlK_M8mGMI/AAAAAAAAFQk/uEw-D62WkLE/s400/Bouncing+Bet,+Soapwort.jpg)
Bouncing Bet,
Soapwort![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_IUVUWmxooYE/TJlK37b79SI/AAAAAAAAFQc/Ckh1-UQeluE/s400/017.JPG)
Purple Passionflower
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Yarrow
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Joe
Pye Weed
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Blue Lettuce, Aster
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Queen Anne's Lace
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Black Eyed Susan
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Heavenly Blue: Morning Glories