Caught this on the 19th

Wow 6 or 7 seven weeks have gone by since I posted any photos.  I’ve been out taking pictures and took several hundred of fall colors so I guess I better go back to September and start posting some to get people caught up on the beautiful fall colors here in Colorado.  We had an odd fall the oak started to turn red and then all of a sudden went brown then the aspen started to turn and they turned in 3 stages so the early pictures have about 1/3 yellow by the end stages some trees had lost their leaves already so although there were lots of gorgeous sights to photograph we never had a point when all the hills were on fire with the aspens this year.  The underbrush was mostly brown then after the aspens had finished a few oak hold outs that had been green started to turn kind of orangey.  The neat part his year though was that there were lots of aspen that were orange this year instead of yellow.

Here are a few of the last flowers, these were on September 12  this butterfly bush is supposed to bloom in spring but it looked dead in spring then in mid summer all of a sudden it came alive and bloomed in September.  It has been a bizarre year in general for all the plants here.

the yard was full of these

Going to seed this looked like fur from a stuffed animal

A panorama

This cloud to the south really caught my attention

When I was taking pictures of the swans the reflections on the lake were very pretty

I zoomed in on the red area

then decided to crop it an see if i liked it better, which I do, I think the ripples were distracting

here are some reflected trees

When I got home the sun was setting

Here is their little one, last time I saw it in July it is was  tiny little white thing

This little duck got too close and got chased away

Here they are swimming together

Then all three of them were in the water

Eventually they all swam across the lake