I don’t think I’m alone in enjoying watching flowers fade. Cut tulips, in particular, turn into wonderful structural shapes as they die.

These hydrangeas are not changing shape – but they are changing colour.  Their youthful pink of earlier in the summer seems garish in the memory besides the subtle, fading pink they now display.  The heads are still flowering on the bush and are not yet dried to brown as they will be later in the year, but are in a between stage, gently losing their colour – and, to my eye at least, growing in beauty.