Summer cosmoses

Cosmoses mostly start to bloom in autumn when they perceive the daylight becoming shorter and the blooms continue till the first frost.  At Yagyu Village, the fallow rice fields, river banks, some parts along the highway are often planted with thousands of cosmoses to be enjoyed in Autumn from late September to November.  (2011 post, Autumn walk through cosmos at Yagyu.)

 

in the early August

Today's post is about summer cosmoses.  I had been caught by the cosmoses blooming in mid-summer whenever I travelled along the road to Yagyu, though they didn't look so spectacular like autumn cosmoses.  One day in early August, I dared to get out of our car to take some pictures of them braving the intense, sizzling heat.  It was hot, hot, too hot, outside, but the cosmoses through my camera lens looked so cool and refreshing as to make me forget the temperatures for a short while.  Some cosmoses looked in good shape, and some weathered though still graceful.  See how they were.

They looked enjoying their lives in the hottest but the sunniest season.
 



 

 

They were flowering in harmony with the fox tails and other weeds as one of the wild grasses.

 

 

 

I like them wild.

 

I was reminded that a cosmos was really a hardy plant like a weed,
resistant to heat and drought as well as to poor soils.

This early-blooming sunflower lady was  going to end her long tireless and ceaseless labor of scattering seeds already in early August.  Now at late August, summer looks to be nearing to the end with cooler air in morning and evening.  I look forward to the cool and crisp air of autumn.