Floral

Moth and Sunset

Posted by Ellie
A moth is on a pink and yellow dahlia flower. The dahlia has toothed petals on the interior, with yellow tips. The outside large ones are a simple point, pink and pale pink. The moth is brown and dark brown with a few black marks.

To wish you a good Friday. Although I suspect this little moth (possibly a cabbage looper) is chewing through my brassicas, I couldn’t resist photographing it on this lovely dahlia flower. Breaking off from doing accounting work which was pressing, I wandered outside saw this and caught it on my phone. I hope you all have a lovely Friday!

After a day of frustration I got out for a quick evening walk and I was rewarded with this scene, also on my phone, so I leave you with it and hope your weekend is a good one.

A dark grey cloudy sky has ripples of clouds interspersed with red markings along the edges. The horizon has various trees interspersed along the ridge, while behind it is a gold patch.
Sunset on the ridge

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Kelsey Annie Joy

Posted by Ellie
A pinky yellow collarette dahlia with spikey pink inner pettals surround an orange centre. In this centre with its head buried, drinking the nectar. The background is a dark green with light spots.
Kelsey Annie Joy

Well, it is the end of the season, so I can’t stop myself sharing another of our beautiful flowers. This time it’s a new dahlia for us, this year. All of our flowers were so slow to bloom due to the poor weather this year, but they have all outdone themselves at this end of the season. This gentle beauty with her smaller flowers, so aptly named, really does bring me Joy, as I hope she does to you.

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Brown Eyed Susan Visitor

Posted by Ellie
A flower with mostly yellow petals radiating out from a brown cone centre has an orange, black and white striped bee on its centre. The petals look as if the brown centre has leaked onto the yellow, staining them brown for a little up towards the tip.

Have a great day, friends! This brings me memories of my Flower A Day project, combining two of my favourite subjects – wildflowers and insects, particularly pollinators. This beautiful splash of yellow petals, stained with rich brown attracted me as much as the bee feeding on it. These flowers appeared one year in a field, never to reappear, so I was so glad to have captured a special time.