Today was another glorious autumn day.
I spent it at my cabin, organizing, burning, and tidying up.
While working on Soduko during a break, a red dragonfly landed on the back of my hand. I expected it to fly away as soon as I made a movement, but not so. It stayed for quite a while.
Dragonflies, once they have chosen a favourite perch, will come back to it. This makes these beautiful, bright insects so easy target for photographers with tripods.
Not so this time, though. It flew, and didn't return.
However, on another afternoon, this August, I had the same thing happen with an Admiral Butterfly. It moved its proboscus around and around on my arm while I watched. It tickled quite a bit. The Admiral did return again and again, to my leg, and to my arm.
On leaving, I watered my sedum plants. These are descendants of a variety called Life Forever that the late Olive Horton gave me back in the early 80's. It will tolerate very hot, dry, sandy locations, and will live almost anywhere - in your lawn or in the wild.
It has green cabbage-like flowers until August/Sept., and then it has lovely big dusky pink flowers on tall stems. Few animals will eat it, but butterflies come for the late season nectar.
It's the best flower for my wild and barren area as nothing much grows down there except rocks and cedars, daisies and asters. You can see the hundred of white asters growing around the sedum in the above picture (not a great photo).
Live Forever thrives on neglect, making it a favourite for thousands of negligent gardeners! Try it. You, too, will love it.
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