I've been away from my blog for a while due to assorted reasons (family and generally being busy), but here's a quick Skywatch Frida...

Here's another Skywatch Friday shot from my Lilypad Lake hike a couple of weeks ago.

Here's another Skywatch Friday shot from my Lilypad Lake hike, with evergreens, an aspen tree, and a plane contrail for good measure. ...

We spent the weekend in Breckenridge, and I did a couple of local hikes. The first one was to Lilypad Lake. The local color was near its pea...

While fall in Colorado doesn't have the spectacular variety of the East Coast, we do get the golden aspen trees. These photos were ta...

It's that time of year, and bright aspen against a blue, autumn Colorado sky makes for a fine Skywatch Friday shot. This one was taken ...

It's definitely autumn - we had the first freeze last week at our house. The leaves are mostly gone at the higher elevations but I fo...

In our neighborhood... Skywatch Friday

The autumn color is past its best in my part of the country, as I discovered on a hike on Saturday. I found almost no trees with their leave...

Last Sunday I went for a hike to Palmer Reservoirs. There was a little sunlight filtering through clouds, but I wasn't able to get the g...

Here are a couple of recent photos of trees. First, near the Great Sand Dunes a couple of weeks ago. Next, on Sunday hiking near Palmer L...

I haven't made it into the mountains this year, so here are a few previously unpublished shots from a hike exactly one year ago, to the ...

It's fall, and although I haven't made it into the mountains yet, they will soon look like this. It's a scanned slide from 19...

This week's Skywatch Friday entry is of a pair of aspen trees reaching towards the sky in Fox Run Park one week ago.

For Skywatch Friday , here are a couple more photos from Sunday's hike in Emerald Valley of the aspen trees turning their classic gold. ...

Fall has fully arrived in Colorado, as the aspen have turned. A five-mile hike on Sunday in Emerald Valley yielded plenty of natural beauty ...

For this week's Tina's PicStory theme of "leafs" as well as my weekly Our World Tuesday post, here's a photo from th...

I wasn't able to get into the mountains to see the fall color this weekend due to work. But I did get to walk around our local park, so ...

I keep thinking all the trees are finished dropping their leaves in my part of the world , but because Colorado has so many micro-climates, ...

In my world , fall is quickly coming to an end and winter will be here before long. Here are the last shots of colored fall foliage in my ar...