Pink cosmos flower with visitor

The cosmos plants in my little flower patch are still producing lots of buds and to my surprise I found one with this stripy hover fly visitor. Autumn has however really started to have its effects, there are lots of leaves falling all over the garden.

Thanks so much for your Abstract Thursday entries last Thursday, lots of lovely autumn leaves and a couple of spring greens and flowers ! This coming Thursday the optional theme is 'moody' and the tag will be AT487. 

Here's the list of 5 special entries from last Thursday:
Kd                         ornate pumpkins
DonnaWanna      wild oats aplenty
Stiffknees            silver birch icm
mambo                autumn in the woods
Evie11                  autumn foliage

Thanks so much for all your kind comments and stars for my Blips this past week !