Sunflowers

 Two cute cottages with sunflowers on today's walk.

Late summer outdoor get together

 At my friend Helen's - with honey from her daughter's bees; fizz; wildflower bouquet.

 

Baby opossum

 A baby opposum asleep in our hostas.   

 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/group/opossums/

Otters vanished and everything else crumbled

 

Photo: Ron Niebrugge/Alamy.  In the Aleutians' delicate seascape, otters hold the entire ecosystem together. As they disappeared, the rest of the food web started to crumble — a process that's been accelerated and compounded by climate change, Dr. Estes and his colleagues report in the journal Science.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/science/otters-sea-urchins-alaska.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=curfbclid=IwAR0A4wvCTPjV7Mw900R0bsBU8BpU5LVEId6M9hUDcseEjEON70PVK_epQB4