Re: CTSRR Fall colors

Festus Wrote:
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> Dang,
>
> I will probably miss most if not all of the fall
> colors. I drive back home from Chicago next
> weekend (after being laid off my contract job).
> When I was home for my last visit we drove over
> Wilkerson pass to Fairplay and on to Breckenridge.
> There were a few colorful patches starting to
> show then.
>
> During the more brilliant years the landscape
> almost becomes surreal. One year we drove from
> Divide to Cripple Creek when the colors were
> particularly deep and the skies were clear as a
> bell. The contrast between the deep blue sky and
> the yellows (and oranges) in the aspens were so
> stark that you would have sworn that the whole
> countryside had been photoshopped!



We only had a couple of days of brilliant colors this year.