II - Autumn Color Loop

Song:  Instrumental Suite from the film  Indecent Proposal

Composer:  John Barry

This is a continuation of the same day as the last article.

After we left the Aspen grove...

we went down the Alpine Hwy and just stopped at various places which looked nice.

We were going to Markleeville here.

We were beyond Markleeville here.

There were many fly fishermen along the river.

I had forgotten how narrow and windy the Ebbetts Pass road is to Lake Alpine.

I won't be driving that one anymore.

This was a small lake before Lake Alpine.

We stopped in at Bear Valley for a short period.

We decided that instead of going back down Ebbetts Pass...

we would just make a circular route of it.

This was a small mountain restaurant on our way back.

There was a controlled burn being conducted behind us...

 by the forest service.

The smoke from it tinted the sky.

I caught the sun as it was setting through the smoke.

A last shot of the smoke from across one of the many lakes on the drive back.

This trip wrapped up the Autumn colors for this season.

Next year...

we are planning to go to Utah for the Fall colors.

We all had a good time.  My elder sister and I...

for the remainder of the drive home...

played twenty questions as I drove.

My mother always enjoys our country drives.

She says that she enjoys nature.

She was laughing...

and talking, most of the trip.