Summer View

A warm sunny summer evening by the water near Beacon Hill park. The setting sun bathed everything in a golden glow.

View of the sea with gumweed flowers in the foreground.

Canon 5D4, Victoria, BC, August 2022

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📷Canon EOS 1100D

🔭Helios 44-2 58mm, f/2

Studies of Summer Flowers by Jacques Laurent Agasse

Oil on canvas, 1848

clivenichols

Tiniest marigolds and zinnias! September flowers are such a treat 🧡

Iris & Fig

My Midsummer English Garden

Orange cosmos ☀️

Purple , summer flowers - Greta Hällfors-Sipilä , 1949.

Finnish, 1899-1974

 Watercolor, 39 x 29 cm.

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📷Canon EOS 1100D

🔭EF-S55-250mm f4-5.6 IS II

Swallowtail butterflies on the mimosa tree flowers

luybsanti

Cosmos

Touching Summer…

Tanya Luca

Mexican Hat

Ratibida columnifera

I found this lonely blooming Mexican hat plant gleaming like a beacon light amongst a sea of non-native, invasive teasel growing in a dry, disturbed, almost waste-like land near Interstate 55 in Missouri.

This sombrero-resembling prairie coneflower is native to North America, where its historic native range primarily spanned the Great Plains and surrounding areas to the west, to Missouri on the very eastern edge of its adventive range. However, there are now naturalized populations east of Missouri. It's commonly grown in gardens and can escape from them. This species prefers dry, sunny habitats such as prairies, savannas and some disturbed areas with well-drained, neutral to alkaline soils. Its flowers provide food for an array of insect species, including bees, beetles, moths, wasps, and many more.

June 20th, 2023

Arnold, Jefferson County, Missouri, USA

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline