Fall is here!

It was a brisk 49 degrees this morning with I packed the hens in the car for a drive in the mountains, but the sun was out, the skies were clear and we were hoping to get a chance to see some fall colors for the first time in years.

We started out on Boulder Canyon Road and turned off on Sugarloaf. I had plotted out a tentative route through the mountains, hoping to find some back roads that offered some great photographic opportunities. We turned off on Switzerland trail and while we saw plenty of color, I think we were a week too early.

We took the trail all the way to Peak to Peak highway and went north. Jackpot! About halfway between Nederland and Ward we found a valley with Arapahoe Peak in the background that had plenty of yellow, green and even some orange.

After getting our fill of Peak to Peak highway colors, we turned off on Left Hand Canyon Road and found a great spot to get photos of the creek that runs alongside the road. I had my tripod, neutral density filter and polarizer with me and managed to get some pretty interesting shots of the water coursing through the stream bed.

It had been about three hours since we left the house and we needed breakfast! We stopped at a place called Le Peep in Boulder. Per their website, Le Peep is “a marvelous world of generous servings, abundant flavors and enticing aromas.” All three off us vigorously agree with that! The food was spectacular!

Enough playing around for the day. We headed home and started working on items on our collective “to-do” lists.

Panorama on Peak to Peak Highway