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Our fall colors are way late this year. I don't know if it is the uber warm and delightful fall, the smoke in the air or just the perverse nature of 2020 as a whole.
Last weekend Resa and I drove from Boise to Lowell where the Lochsa and the Selway rivers come together to form the Clearwater. Colors were starting to turn, but not like I was expecting or hoping for. I never broke the camera out for a single shot on the drive up.
About four in the morning I took my dog Joe out of the room for a short walk to do his dooty. I put him on a leash to be sure he did not stop before we cleared the grass of the location we were staying. THANK GOODNESS!
As we walked around the end of the office building, I heard a rustling sound and turned my light in that direction only to see a very black and white striped denizen of the woods with his tail raised high. With Joe on the leach I had no problem walking at a brisk pace for a couple of hundred yards. I do not even want to contemplate how unpleasant the five and one half hour drive would have been with a freshly skunked dog in the back seat.
The cafe at Lowell really served horrible food for dinner, so Resa and I took off before sunrise to get gas and find a restaurant in Kooskia, about twenty-one miles away. As we were about five miles out we came around a corner and the sight took my breath away, even in the early dawn light. I told Resa I wanted to come back when the early morning light was sufficient to capture the colors we were seeing.
We had a great breakfast, filled the tank for the long drive home and went back. I will post the best three photos I got, and I have to tell you, I wish I was a great landscape photographer as the view coming around the corner was magnificent.
I really liked this one with the bright yellow on the left and the magnificent red on the right.
This next one is my least favorite, but still worth sharing.
It is nice, but just does not move me like the first one.
I really cannot decide between the first and this next one, which one is my favorite of the three. Sometimes I think #1 and other times, I think #3. I am interested in your thoughts, and of course, in seeing what pictures some of you photographers out there have captured.
I hope many of you will join in, I know there has to be some fantastic fall colors out there somewhere.
Wink
Last weekend Resa and I drove from Boise to Lowell where the Lochsa and the Selway rivers come together to form the Clearwater. Colors were starting to turn, but not like I was expecting or hoping for. I never broke the camera out for a single shot on the drive up.
About four in the morning I took my dog Joe out of the room for a short walk to do his dooty. I put him on a leash to be sure he did not stop before we cleared the grass of the location we were staying. THANK GOODNESS!
As we walked around the end of the office building, I heard a rustling sound and turned my light in that direction only to see a very black and white striped denizen of the woods with his tail raised high. With Joe on the leach I had no problem walking at a brisk pace for a couple of hundred yards. I do not even want to contemplate how unpleasant the five and one half hour drive would have been with a freshly skunked dog in the back seat.
The cafe at Lowell really served horrible food for dinner, so Resa and I took off before sunrise to get gas and find a restaurant in Kooskia, about twenty-one miles away. As we were about five miles out we came around a corner and the sight took my breath away, even in the early dawn light. I told Resa I wanted to come back when the early morning light was sufficient to capture the colors we were seeing.
We had a great breakfast, filled the tank for the long drive home and went back. I will post the best three photos I got, and I have to tell you, I wish I was a great landscape photographer as the view coming around the corner was magnificent.
I really liked this one with the bright yellow on the left and the magnificent red on the right.
This next one is my least favorite, but still worth sharing.
It is nice, but just does not move me like the first one.
I really cannot decide between the first and this next one, which one is my favorite of the three. Sometimes I think #1 and other times, I think #3. I am interested in your thoughts, and of course, in seeing what pictures some of you photographers out there have captured.
I hope many of you will join in, I know there has to be some fantastic fall colors out there somewhere.
Wink
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