Natural History Wanderings

Rocky Mt. Nature Photographers has new fall color reports for Colorado Rockies

10/12 County Rd. 5 above Ridgway is pretty much peak as of yesterday – the whole range looking very yellow.  Some leaves still a little greenish, and some stands already bare, but mostly vast stretches of yellow.  The scrub oak is looking nice and orange/red as well.  Today is quite windy – it might blow a lot of those leaves down.

10/12 Sunday-Wednesday last week the Last Dollar Rd., Illium Rd., Telluride to Rico was great.  I’d call it peak in that current tress will be loosing leaves as fast as new trees come in.

10/11 West side of McClure is almost peak. West Kebler Pass is at peak, with a little green here and there. Hardly any leaf loss, yet. Marcelina had the most glorious alpen glow last night, but it just missed lighting up the top. Foggy clouds this morning under the moonlight.

See older reports and some photo links at Photo Critique Forums.