Fading beauty

I did a lot of cleaning up in the garden today and tried to keep as much colour from the flowers as possible.  Still some blooms left but quite a few are fading like this dahlia. Another lovely fall day, sunny and warm. Heavy dew in the morning because it's cooling off quite a bit at night. 
Extra: a bee on a cosmos. Not many bees around now. I liked the shadow and the pollen on the back leg.