Ya seen one gold leaf, ya seen 'em all! We almost felt that way after our trip across southern Colorado yesterday. Yet the experience was wonderful! One thing our pictures can't convey is the experience of watching the quaking aspen quake ... just a constant shimmer of dancing leaves. In one place, it was a gentle shower of discs of gold as the wind shook the trees and leaves fell around us.
The tarantula at the top was one of a dozen or more individuals making their way across the highway at various places around Rocky Ford, Colorado.
We must have waited for half an hour for the clouds to clear and let the sun illuminate the mass of aspens on the east side of La Veta Pass. It seems every shade the aspen leaves can turn is represented in this cluster.
In some places, the mass of leaves, with the sun behind, presented a mosaic constructed of golden chips.
Just off the east side of Wolf Creek Pass, in the upper part of the Rio Grande, there were aspens scattered through the evergreen forest in ones and twos, looking like tall candles lit in the woods.
There's a beautiful valley east of Pagosa Springs, as you approach Wolf Creek Pass from the west, that was all ablaze, with the San Juans in the background.
Well, it was nice, but here we are in Limon, CO, and it's 6 a.m. and we need to cross Nebraska and be on the north side if Des Moines, Iowa, tonight, so bye for now. tv
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