For all of maybe 2-3 minutes, the setting sun lit the treetops in the valley between “my” foothill and the Swan Range.

I headed out this morning to Home Depot to get paint, etc. for the next phase of the porch project. It was alternately drizzly, rainy, sprinkling and generally overcast but the fall color is suddenly near its peak and even the gray skies could not dull the golds of the aspen and birch and even a little bit of red. I caught all of these on the road to the dump…

a bit of blue at one moment…

a little color.

I took these photos yesterday… the blue sky, white clouds, sunshine…these photos might have to hold me awhile. The week is to be cool, rainy and although a bit far out, they are forecasting snow to the valley floor late in the week. But as of yesterday afternoon, the sky was that impossibly beautiful blue and the clouds piling up over the mountain peaks were white-white. Temperatures rose to nearly 70 all week giving us another week of late summer.

We enjoyed!