Thursday, October 02, 2008
Spring Creek Road, above Green Mountain Reservoir, Colorado
This is the first entry of the Journey Through Landscape Fall Colors Tour 2008, or JTLFCT08 for short. Got a late start out of Denver last night and drove in under cover of darkness, so I was uncertain to what I would find when the sun came up. I parked on a short spur road off the main Forest Service road where it looked like there were some aspen trees. I started walking down the road in the dark with the glow on the horizon lighting my path. There were aspens on both sides of the road in full bloom, some almost a beautiful golden red color, and the road ended about half a mile down with a sweeping vista overlooking Green Mountain reservoir Ute Pass. Just at the end of the road there were the two aspen trees pictured above, reaching up into the sky above the aspen grove, catching the wonderful golden glow of the sunrise. I don’t want to sound too cliche, but the beautiful light of the morning and the solitude of the aspen grove really made it a magical morning for me, a great start to the Tour.
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