'Tis the season

Most of the time I find Colorado beautiful. The mountains in the west, the clear blue skies, the snow capped peaks... but there are a couple of weeks in the year that I feel Colorado is the most beautiful place on Earth. I can feel it coming just after Labor Day. The weather cools off at night and we wake up to crisp clear mornings. Mums pop up everywhere and bulbs are put in the ground. Talk of Halloween spreads like wildfire amongst the neighborhood children. And just beyond the city limits a magical color transition is occurring in the Aspen.

Every year we take a drive to see the fall colors, trying to catch the leaves right at their peak. We may have been a touch early this year, but we couldn't have picked a more beautiful evening.

This is why I live in Colorado!
(This and a million other reasons. :)