End of the Summer in the Garden

My garden is not very pretty now.....but the birds do love it! They hang from the sunflowers stripping the seeds from the heads, and flit about the cosmos and coreopsis getting the small seeds. 

And there are a few colorful cosmos left.

Every season has it's beauty!

Lavender

I love lavender. We have a very large lavender plant in our yard, which I "harvest" every year for the lavender "heads" to put in sachets. Today was harvesting day - I was about finished, when this little fellow popped out of a bunch of lavender that I had trimmed from the plant and was about to stuff into a bag. A preying mantis! I managed to get him back on the plant - hope he survives.





Almost finished trimming the lavender.



The preying mantis who lives in my lavender plant.

In the Garden at Sunset

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