The Colors of Autumn...

There are times there is a lull in my photo ops for Day Trippin'. I have a collection of photos...natural beauties, and ones that I guess can be considered natural oddities.

Today, I share those photos...

I'll begin with the odd first. There is no rhyme or reason other than I saw something in the tree cuts that others may not:

Where the limb was cut, the mold left behind on this particular day seemed to show up as a bird feather [Ummmmm, Anni, what OTHER kind of feather is there other than BIRD?!!].  Do you think so too?

For years, this tree's broken limb has had this 'phenomenon' etched within, and it's never changed much over the decade.  To me it's still a skull.  I've shown this before, but I can't seem to find the post to compare it.  addendum:  I FOUND my previous post HERE. It HAS changed some, but not that much!

Now, some of nature's beauties:

More deer...I see a herd just about every time I get to the park in the early morning hours.

...and one more grouping. Nature's golden glow of Autumn. Some I captured remind me of dahlias, but they're really sunflowers...double sunflowers:

Standard sunflower blooms have a central disk, comprised of thousands of small flowers, surrounded by several outer rows of colorful petals. Double sunflower varieties, however, produce layers upon layers of petals that either replace the central disk of small flowers completely or hide it under thousands of fluffy petals.