... on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The weather was much cooler than usual for this time of year, due to winds generated by Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic Ocean. Breezy pleasant day, with bright blue sky and white fluffy clouds high in the atmosphere, not looking at all like horrible weather is headed our way in middle GA. The fall wildflowers were beautifully blooming along the right of way and out in pastures as we traveled to eastern most TN.
Lots of bright yellow daisies, blooming profusely along the road. The plants appeared to be at least five or six feet tall, with multiple branching stems, and many brilliantly colored daisies on each one. They probably start off with one little random plant, then reseed gloriously, creating great wide clumps and patches of colorful blooms each fall. The richly colored, dark purple heads of Joe Pye weed, blooming along the edges of the pastures and fence rows. The color you would have thought from reading historical records that was rare, expensive to find and reserved for royalty. Prolifically showing clumps of color, along the verge in dark enticing shades of deepest purple.
Slender stems of bright lavender asters, with blooms about the size of your thumbnail. But dozens of small colorful flowers waving in the breeze on plants two or three feet in height. Large lush clumps from the plentiful rainfall over the past summer months, making delightfully appealing blooms to attract pollinators like butterflies and honey bees. When the weather cools, and we begin to look for leaves changing color, we fail to remember there are so many flowers that wait until the fall to put on a show, but there they are, adding subtle beauty to the world, waiting to be noticed and enjoyed.
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