rest of 09/2016 - our yard and neighborhood flowers

I walk by a yard with potato vines with abundant blooms. On this day, the flowers were right for a picture and so was the morning light.

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Some kind of exotic grass with many tiny flowers hanging down.

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We'd had sage bushes in our front yard for years. Generations of bees, hummingbirds and other pollinators have visited them. They keep blooming right into November.

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Most of the grindelia plants had finished blooming long ago. If you are a hungry beetle, this was the only diner in town still open.

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Pretty good crowd. Everybody minding their business and chowing down.

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One day as we finished lunch on the patio, we spotted a dragonfly perched for some time on a tall stem. I got a camera and eased up to take a picture. This dragonfly was cooperative until I finally got too close for its peace of mind.

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After the dragonfly left, I checked for insects on the willow herb (epilobium brachicarpum) plants going to seed. The insects are quite small and the slender plant stems move wildly in a slight breeze. Lesley held the branch near this insect.

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We had a few September poppy flowers. Way early or way late.

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