old & new

 

 

 

some of the summer flowers (cosmos, rudbeckia) still holding on, autumn flowers (chinese asters) opening for the first time... when the hydrangea paniculata starts changing colours, the white petals becoming pink-creamy, you know autumn is here.

white little stars

  

 

The white little china aster, glowing in the dark, a last petunia 

and the fluffy seed heads of gaillardia - among the scattered vine leaves, 

summer and autumn entwined...