According to the weathermen, we are in a monsoon pattern up here in the mountains. This doesn't necessarily mean that it rains the entire day. What it does mean is that there are ominous dark clouds floating over us most of the day. These clouds can make for some quite striking mountainscapes. Sometimes the clouds will just linger over the tops of the mountains, almost like something on the cover of a Led Zepplin album or Tolkien novel. And with the foliage starting to change, the plants themselves provide some color to the otherwise gray backdrop.
Very soon, it will be time to break out the tripod and try to capture some of the changes once again. It's not quite to the point where I'm missing shots yet.
This is the time of year that my thoughts usually turn towards the Midwest. Fall has always had this call for me. The colors here are quite nice but there is nothing that compares to fall east of the Mississippi River. There are just so many more kinds of trees to provide an explosion of fall color. Unfortunately this is the first fall in a long time I'm not able to be back in the Midwest to enjoy the colors. I was blessed to be there during the peak last year.
There really is no autumn up here. It goes straight from summer to fall and then to winter. Which is fine as long as the winter is your focus. The Hoosier in me misses the autumn greatly though.
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