It’s the last really colorful month for outside splendor, and as such some of the flowers seem to be putting on a brighter and more saturated show than they may have done earlier in the season, when the whole of summer spread out before them. Now any day might be the last before a hard frost, and so we have this beautiful moment where the flowers put on their showiest farewell, perhaps sensing this will be it for the season.
Every added day at this time of the year feels like a bonus flower day, and maybe this will be one of those extended falls where the warm weather lasts and sees us through to December. It’s the least Mother Nature could do after giving us such an awful summer.
