Wonders, big and small

I stepped outside this morning and within 10 minutes was gifted with the following:

A group of eight bucks browsing on the other side of the pond, all of them in velvet as they've started working on the bling for next fall's rut. Good friends now perhaps, but not so much once the Does come into heat.

This poor plant virtually covered in big fat, almost florescent, yellow aphids (I think that's what they are.) with striking black appendages sticking out of their over-inflated bodies.

And this delicate little cluster of 'shrooms.

Not a bad start to the day!!