This post is a mix of insects and flowers from my garden, but mostly flowers.
Pink cosmos with what I think is a yellow-striped armyworm at one o’clock and some other unknown insect at 12 o’clock.
Purple coneflowers with out of focus rudbeckias in the background
Skipper on a lobelia siphilitica, sometimes called a blue cardinal flower because (except for it being blue rather than red) it looks so similar to a cardinal flower.
Blue cardinal flower
Purple coneflowers, and out of focus blue cardinal flowers and yellow rudbeckias in the background
Purple coneflower
Swamp milkweed flower
Skipper on a cosmos
Cosmos flowers – two stages of the life cycle on the same branch
Pink cosmos
Thank you for stopping by.
David
It's Complicated 
Lot of summer feelings…..
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Yes, I think it comes from the lushness of the summer colors. Fall can have great colors too but I think they usually have a dryer, crisper feel to them.
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You have a nice variety of flowers in your garden, David. Love those skippers!
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Thank you Eliza. The skippers are fun to photograph and my garden tends to attract many more of them than any other butterfly.
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The centers on the purple coneflowers are stunning!
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Thanks Donna. I always try to have them in focus no matter, what otherwise I think the photo fails. The hard part is getting the exposure just right right so that you can see each individual base of the the stigmas without overexposing their much brighter tops. I did it fairly well in these photos but I’m usually not so lucky.
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Lobelia siphilitica sounds like an STD. Oh, Latin! Brilliant colors, David. And I loved the concept of the two cosmos flowers at different stages in their lives.
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Thank you Gabriela and yes, I have thoughts of anything other than blue cardinal flower when I see its scientific name. I couldn’t believe my look when I saw the two stages so closely together. It’s not uncommon for that to happen with the cosmoses but I never found them aligned for a good composition like that.
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i like to look at the photos. wonderful
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Thank you very much. I am glad you like them.
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