Here’s a very quick post today. it’s color-changing time in the Rockies and I have to get back out on the road and shoot the changing of the color as it happens, because it disappears very quickly here in the mountains.

Apparently there is some rule or regulation that states that you cannot wear green after the first of October so all of the aspen and scrub oak and various and sundry bushes are changing their colors immediately. It seems that this is some type of arboreal dress-code and there are serious consequences if the trees don’t comply.

And that also means that if you want to photograph them you must be out there while the change is happening. This is a shot of Mt Meeker, just west of Estes Park, Colorado and near Rocky Mountain National park, who is carefully overseeing the switch. The trees are hurrying as the sun is going down and they don’t want to be caught with their colors down. It also means the end of my shooting day. Conditions can change rapidly as overnight the wind can come up and rain and snow falls and the next day all their finery is gone, lying on the ground around them, completing their assignments for the year. That means I need to get to work and hope for a little sun later.

This morning there is heavy cloud cover and wind so I’m waiting for things to settle down before venturing out to see what’s left. That’s it. Got to run. Talk at you later.