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