Mid- August Now

 Mid-August, and a new moon tonight. Now is the time of ripening tomatoes, peppers, beans and eggplants. 

The day lilies are just about finished, but the queen-anne's lace and the sky-blue chicory are still going strong. The giant sunflowers are beautiful now.

Also blooming now, the late-summer flowers,  white flowers of hostas and moon flowers,  the lavender -pink flowers of the Rose of Sharon bushes.

And the seedpods of milkweeds, ripening

Seedheads on the ornamental grasses, luminous in the sun,  drops of water like jewels after the rain.

Yes, much-needed rain here, but still dry conditions,  and falling yellow leaves.

Mid-August afternoon, and the sound of acorns falling.

Still time for the summer chairs, and watching fireflies.  The Perseid meteors  may be past their peak, but  it is not too late to see some.

It's been a summer of heat waves and wildfires, tornadoes and floods. They are saying this will be the hottest summer the world has ever seen. 

Heat index over 100 is possible here next week.