I present to you: things in the garden, from the past two weeks…
unexpected late summer clematismonarch in the fall clematis (there is milkweed vine woven in, which might help)transplanted sage (5 years old), thriving in it’s new homeblackberry lily seed podsyellow garden spiders have set up shop, dotted across our gardennasturtium, recovering from high heat burn-outcoreopsis, from a parent planted five years agothe native flower whose name I always forgetswamp milkweed (?) splitting podsour first monarch caterpillarcommon buckeye butterflies on carrot flowersblack swallowtail caterpillar in the carrot greensearly russian cuke, showing up very lateour sunflower forest, all birdfeeder volunteersfall clematis in full bloomsoldier beetle in the clematisnasty nasty blister beetle, it went directly into the soapy bucket of death after the photoa rebound blooming of butterfly weedour final round of tomatoes will be massive, will they get ripe or be harvested green?blue-winged wasps on the wild garlic, with ermine moth to the lower left, and soldier beetle in the upper right.
our cattywampus cottage 
What a dramatic looking spider! The Buckeye butterflies are beautiful!