Last flowers of the year

Because I was gone for weeks in the spring and then hurt during the summer, the garden has been a tangled mess and things haven't been cut down and cleaned out.

It turns out beauty has come of that.

I went outside for a second despite my cough, and ended up stealing a few minutes to catch these images.

Aster with liatris and iris leaves

Jupiter's beard with liatris seedpods and foliage and aster seedpods

It's rare for me to stage a photo, but I broke this poppy while getting into position over the sedum, and it looked so right there.

Pink veronica leaves, seedpod, and stubborn blossom

Aster amid the wreckage