Leafy

Catching up a little.  This group of pictures is from a couple weeks ago.  This was an interesting drive because we compared Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons on the same day, and Little Cottonwood was far brighter.  These reds just spilled down the canyon right onto the foothills.  I don't know if it's the way the sun hits this hill or what (temperature changes? angle of drainage?), but those maples were amazing.

Higher up, the aspens take over.  Yellows replace the reds.

Junie considers, then decides she approves

Some sort of heathen dance going on here

Ky found a heart

Mapleton, later that day.  Bright reds here too.

We drove a little way up Maple Canyon and there were a few spectacular trees.  Not as many as some years, though.  The early snow must have been heavy here---there were broken branches everywhere.  It looked like a huge windstorm had blown through, ripping trees off mid-trunk in some places.  It is strange that such a gentle, fluffy, incremental little thing can wreak such destruction.