White asters
A few white flowers from fall:
The first image has some New England Aster in the background, the second a cucumber beetle nestled inside. The last image is a creeping aster I photographed in Maine in October.
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My first feeling is lightness with the white colours of asters…
The brightness of the whites in the second image was what I liked best.
The third resembles an aster galaxy full of petaled stars. Wish we had aster season all summer long.
>>Wish we had aster season all summer long.
I do too! I wish there were some of the creeping aster closer to home.
The purple in the first picture’s background is pleasant.
It was a happy combination – thanks.
I’m inordinately pleased with myself. I recognized the cucumber beetle before I read your text! We’re suddenly awash in asters again. A friend says she has some tall white ones blooming on her property, and the lawns are covered wtih tiny purple ones. The creeping aster’s a new one for me, but it looks like it would make a beautiful mass of blooms. I do like the horizontal orientation of the branch in the second photo, as well as its beetle and buds.
Thanks, Linda. The creeping aster is one I’ve photographed before, but I’ve only seen it in Maine. Last year I found it in full bloom, this patch had just started, as you can see from all those buds.