Autumn Colors Are Here - But So Are the Summer Flowers!

I would like to share with you a few sets of pictures taken in the past few days at Brightwood Park.  After the recent rainfall and the change of temperature, the leaves started to turn colorful.  Autumn is here!

Mushrooms are my favorite objects.  Sometimes I stared at individual ones for a while, and saw funny human or animal faces in each of them.

After a long drought, rain finally came back to wet the trees and grasses, and soaked the soil.  Birds came back, too.  A blue jay looked around and tried to reorient itself.  

I like going to the park after a rainstorm, particularly the morning following a wet night.  Water drops on the edges of leaves or tips of branches often reminded me of the days I  sang "Twinkle, twinkle little star" with my children.  That was a long time ago, and I miss it very much. 

When I was watching the foliage, I got company.  A northern phoebe stood next to me and appeared to be in deep thinking.  

​Flowers do not seem to be willing to hand over the role of decorating the park to tree leaves yet.  The beautiful colors displayed by all the plants are like a performance by a symphony orchestra.

A few trees fell down recently.  The township officials took quick action to remove the ones blocking the trail section near the big slope.  I did a rough counting of the ring and estimated this tree to be close to 70 years old.

On the way back to the parking lot I watched the beautiful sky with clouds flying by.  I saw a pattern like an old couple talking to each other.  The wife seemed to be communicating with her mouth, hand, and finger together.

Sometimes I feel the park is like a teen-age girl,  who becomes prettier and prettier everyday and loves to try out all kinds of makeup.  This morning a special guest came to visit.  It was a feather-like cloud with rainbow color. 

​I would like to share with you two additional sets of photos.  One set was from October 8 and has the full moon with Jupiter in its vicinity. One of the photos is a close-up of Jupiter.  Another photos has both the moon and Jupiter.