GOLDEN WILDFLOWERS FROM A PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE DOCK The colors of the sky

The colors of the sky shifted from the light colored oranges and purples to a deep orange as the sun came closer to touching the horizon

which makes for some good photography

doesn't mean it will be an ordinary day

A beautiful morning hiking through Starved Rock State Park as the autumn colors of maple

I stopped close to some wildflowers of eastern daisy fleabane

GOLDEN WILDFLOWERS FROM A PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE DOCK The colors of the skyAfter photographing the sunrise and wildflowers along with the golden mist scenes moments earlier from the early morning, I moved along through the park crossing the bridge over Eakin Creek West with a little bit of mist still hovering over the landscape that had yet to burn off from the warming of the morning sun. After crossing the bridge, the landscape opens up a little with many wildflowers of common milkweed, wild bergamot, some motherwort, cup