backyard blooms and dieback

a mix of things getting on to the end of the backyard season...the scarlet runner beans are just starting to bloom...planted last spring, they are a cool weather crop that idled along in the summer heat and seem just now ready to produce...orangish blossoms rather than scarlet ( to my non-artist eye anyway...you may see the difference...i don't )...there's a late sunflower preparing to bloom as well...late but willing so i'll take it...there are some jerusalem artichokes dying back, both in a container ( an experiment within the experiment my whole backyard has become ) so there will be a harvest of tubers soon ( and a replanting for next year...the backyard may be the sole source of them next season if the shift in the pgp comes through ) growth in the garden would seem to be cyclic...a lot like all of life in some ways.