Late August

Summer flies so quickly...and with family and friends visiting,  I get less time to post  to my Nature blog.  This is my last weekend of the Nantucket summer. I took a bike ride through the Middle Moors yesterday and Josh and I hiked our Pout Ponds hike today.  The weather has been amazing,  and we even went to Radar beach for four hours yesterday!

On the ride the bayberry were in fruit and the first Blazing Stars were blooming.  I even spotted the Easter Silvery Aster,  Aster Concolor.  I did bring my camera for the hike.

The asters are out!  Heath Aster,  Aster ericoides

The combination of red grasses and goldenrod delights

Sessile Fruited Arrowhead at PoutPond -Sagittaria Rigida

Pout Pond

Pout Pond

Lichen in Summer

Chrysopsis Falcata-  Sickle Leaved Asters

Sweet Everlasting  -Gnaphalium Obtusifolium

Early August

The scent of early August  in Nantucket is so delightful...the aroma of Sweet Pepper,  Clethra Alnifolia,  fills the air.  I love my early Saturday morning bike ride around the Polpis Loop from Sconset to the Rotary and back to Sconset,  and the wonderful smells perfume the island.  I love July's smell of privet ....and the scent of the swamp azalea,  but sweet pepper is my favorite.

Clethra Alnifolia

Norwood Farm's Sweet Pepper

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The field at Norwood Farm

Hyssop-leaved boneset

Eupatorium Hyssopifolium

Little Ladies Tresses-  but which species?

Sickle Leaved Asters beginning to bloom

The last of the Yarrow