CoCo - thank you for your writing. You are very good and have quite the distinct "voice". Reading today's passage, I felt as if I was transported to this place. I had just started to go back and read some of your other posts and look forward to new ones!
Autumn is my favorite time of year as well. The whole stripping away and 'letting go of the old' in preparation of settling in for a long winter's slumber...
I'm currently living in CO. It's beautiful out here in the Fall (well - all year, really), but I will admit to being homesick for Western NY with the variety of trees and the accompanying riot of color that those leaves bring this time of year. coffee_black'slink brought back some powerful memories of our family making long, autumnal pilgramages to out-of-the-way roadside stands with apples and cider jugs and maple candies...*sigh* Ahhhh, Home. (coffee_black - nice drawings, too!)
Thanks all, for sharing the pictures...ooooooooo, pretty.
Here's my contribution -- last year a friend of mine and I hiked to Hell's Hole, located in the Mount Evans Wilderness area/Front Range of the Rockies. It was taken from my phone so I can't claim it's the best, but I hope you like it: