Autumn Color exploding on Jefferson Hill and in South Park Valley near Kenosha Pass in the Colorado Rockies. The snow capped peaks were getting some additional accumulation in the distance.

A view from the South Park Valley floor up to the Colorado Trail leading to Kenosha Pass during peak autumn color.

Turned to my right and it seemed as if the trees had wild flames coming off the top of them.

A beautiful view of a beaver pond on an early morning hike through Yeoman Park in the Colorado Rockies. The Reflections and autumn color caught my attention in the crisp still mountain air.

A fallen aspen leaf clings to a rock in a cool Rocky Mountain creek near Crested Butte Colorado.

Yes… let’s take a stroll on the old road into the autumn woods.

Beautiful color on East Brush Creek in Colorado's Sylvan State Park. The falls were flowing well and the location was super peaceful to sit and contemplate nature while listening to the waterfalls.

Old Rocky Mountain 4x4 road to Trout Creek. Sometimes it is better to walk the autumn road than drive it

As the season changes in the Rocky Mountains the streams are littered with beautiful gold and orange leaves from the shedding aspens. I was sitting next to Three Mile Creek in the Mount Evans Wilderness meditating with my thoughts and absorbing the calm soft colors in this splendid little creek. I believe these moments are required to keep my sanity in this modern hectic life.

It is wonderful to explore the 4X4 backcountry roads in the Colorado Rockies on a beautiful crisp autumn morning in mid-September. Awesome gold and orange colored aspens can cross your path at any turn.

Traveling the backroads in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado can deliver up some surprises. We were coming back to Denver from summiting four 14ers in the Mosquito Range and I cam across this old truck near a cabin in the mountains. It just hit me as a quintessential Colorado scene. I stopped and composed this photograph. Not sure what the make or year of the truck is but it had been well used. I love how the chrome still sparkled but it was rusted all over. Just gives a person a feeling of vintage respect.

Sylvan means "a peaceful, wooded place" and this scene exemplifies that phrase. Teig and I spent a weekend exploring this area west of Vail Colorado and was pleasantly surprised at it's quaint beauty. Steep valleys and high peaks with aspen groves, lodgepole pine and Douglas fir forests on moist slopes with Ponderosa pines and junipers found on drier slopes.

September in Colorado's Rocky Mountains is a vibrant display of autumn's colors. The sides of mountains can be a gorgeous palette of warm reds, bright golds and subdued greens against a deep blue sky. We are definitely blessed to witness this wonderful explosion of nature best colors.

A storm hit the Colorado Rocky Mountains during the aspen color change and availed me with the opportunity to create this special panorama of Twin Lakes and it’s rugged spectacular peaks. Mount Elbert (center right) is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the highest point in Colorado and the entire Mississippi River drainage basin.

Teig on the gold covered Crooked Creek Trail this afternoon. Colors warmed our souls. Hard to be down with this warmth enveloping us.

Beautiful dense forest of aspens off of Swampy Pass Trail near Crested Butte, Colorado. Sauntering through this awesome autumn color on the trail during peak colors was an experience worth having. It is hard not to be positive about life with all this gorgeous beauty engulfing me.

Autumn in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado is a wonderful experience. All the deciduous trees explode with red, orange and yellow colors and then drop their leaves to the ground below. If you are around during the right time the floor of the forest and the canopy will be covered in “Autumn Glory”. This was the case on this 4x4 road in the southern San Juans near the New Mexico border.

Teig and I stopped off at a little beaver pond on Three Mile Creek on our way back to the trailhead in the Mount Evans Wilderness. Teig was being his typical attentive self and was searching for trout that may be rising for food. I think he would have been a serious fly-fisherman if he was homosapien.

Teig and I really enjoy an autumn jaunt on the west side of Golden Gate State Park outside of Golden Colorado. On this October evening there was nice golden color in the aspen trees along our trail.