There is a bumblebee on one of the coneflowers in the upper left of the photo.
I always leave the dried coneflowers (on the plant stems) for the Goldfinches and any other bird to eat and they do. It warms my heart to see them happily feeding. You could say that the dried cones are like little bird feeders.
Although I haven't been too successful at growing coneflowers, I keep trying because they are so lovely. Great banner, Marilyn.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
with all of the above. Banners like this lift the spirits during cold autumn mornings like today. 
