Summer's End

Certain images say "late summer" to me. The drying sunflower head, for example.



Or the garden spider, who has been here all along, but wasn't of sufficient size to be noticed. This is the spider's underside. What a design!

Or the lobelia blossom with a hungry bee inside. This blossom is three-quarters of an inch tall. (I didn't measure the bee.)

And a surprise image -- a fresh fig borne by Kathy's fig tree, which lives in a pot and spends the winter in her detached garage. I had never before tasted the tender sweetness of a fresh fig.

High summer is so lush with images that we sometimes can't see the details. By late summer, foliage has thinned, blooms have gone to seed, the details emerge, and, if we are lucky, we get to eat a fresh fig.