We had kind of a weird season this year of fall foliage. What started out promising was soon blown and withered away by an early season cold snap and snowfall.

I went to the Colorado high country right before the storm and got some decent pictures but none of the big, sweeping mountainsides of yellow like I hoped.

At one point on Guanella Pass, my daughter and I were out hiking and rather than looking up, I looked down. I kind of liked this shot with all the different colors. A good reminder to look all directions as you never know what you might find.

Such a beautiful and peaceful scene my daughter and I came along last week while on our fall colors drive. A quiet dirt road in the Colorado high country with the golden leaves above and the sun bursting through. It was a very peaceful moment as we strolled along just taking it in.

One of the better areas of fall colors I found yesterday just east of Breckenridge, Colorado. This was my first time here and it proved to be a nice photo stop. The mine operated from the 1880s into the 1970s where they pulled silver, gold, lead and zinc from the ground.

A beautiful day in the Colorado high country today and well worth spending a day off to go up there. The colors are still a bit hit or miss but there were some worthy spots. This particular pic was taken on Guanella Pass with me lying on my back looking straight up. 😉

A stunning scene in the Southpark area on September 24, 2016.

Normally, this is the weekend I would head high into the #mountains and capture golden landscapes like this. Mother Nature had other ideas this year and with our wet winter and spring, the green is holding on a bit longer. It may be a week or two before something like this is repeated.

Hopefully I can be there to capture it.

The leaves in Rocky Mountain National Park were a bit of a hit and miss affair this past weekend. While there were spots of gold, they were often interspersed with some trees that hadn’t changed at all. That kept me from capturing the sweeping landscapes of fall foliage that I was hoping for however, closer looks were quite nice.

Such was the case with this little grove of trees that had changed. Looking straight up the trunk of this tree you can see the canopy of yellow and of course those gorgeous, blue Colorado skies.

Get this image here.