Welcome to October, my favorite color. Time to change the month on your calendar and since no one complained about seeing more images from Vail, I thought share another one from my recent trip taken on a hike Saturday morning. Not only was it a picture perfect day, the health app on my phone was tricked into thinking I’d walked 25 flights of stairs along the DaVos Trail in West Vail. That cracked me up but now that I’ve been home long enough, the lactic acid buildup in my calves suggests it was more than accurate.
The changing of the aspens is a annual ritual in the Colorado High Country and starts with ribbons of color weaving through various kinds of pines and rock formations. It’s one that makes your heart sing with ooh’s and ahhh’s as you take all that beauty in to your soul. Typically you stop periodically to check the view. As you savor all that beauty, that scenery (as well as the exertion) just takes your breath away. And then you find a whole new religion.
Happy Tuesday.
Live, love, bark! 🐾
It is pawtacular. We just wish Winter didn’t follow 😉🐾💜💜
Yeah, there’s is that but it’s so glorious right now so we’ll keep our paws crossed the next season isn’t too bad. 😉
Pawsitive outlook 🐾💜🐾
Wagnificent 🐾💜🐾
We love this time of year!
A phone would never lie.
Just confuse with the time zone thing.
My over-sized wool cardi has been out for a couple of weeks, and the leaves in the UK are turning beautiful Autumnal shades 🙂 Cool and crisp but sunny today after a week of rain.
That kind of weather sounds perfect to me!
fall is fabulous… we love this season… and it is time for boots!
Boots and sweaters…YES please!!
Fantabulous, Monika! Keep on sharing! I have zero trouble with that! And I betcha you did more than the 25 floors claimed 😉
I’m very religious – but has zero to do with any doctrine or organised religion. I’ll pray at the altar of Mother Nature!
It sure seemed like it. 😂There was more than a 5000 ft increase in elevation.
I’m with you on worshiping at the altar of Mother Nature.
I envy you your “backyard”…
She is honest. And don’t fuck with her.
This trip reminded me not take the ‘backyard’ for granted. I’ll be going back.
Excellent. And so you should!
Wow…all this talk about your calves and here all along I thought you only had poodles, not cows. :snorf:
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A beautiful pic … you did well … no … very well! Cheers to the Aspen beauty that we don’t get in my region.
I’ll enjoy them on your behalf. With much pleasure.
Gorgeous Blue Skies and changing colors!!
Those blue skies are classic, especially this time of year.
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a wonderful photograph…it was like opening a door.
You know, it felt just like that from dark to light!
Colorado is about the same point of the fall as we here. We have also those beautiful colors everywhere. Your photo has an amazingly blue sky!
The sky up in the mountains is so beautifully blue most days.
Beautiful photo and that blue sky is just incredible! Happy October!
October seems to be the favorite of a lot of peeps. Blue skies like that are welcome every day 😊
I worship October and it’s beauty as well. 🙂
It’s the best time of year in my books too.
October is my all time favorite month. It is the most beautiful month of the year! Love your photo!
October makes the autumn transition a beautiful one, even if that white stuff is probably just around the corner.
This is picture postcard painting perfect.
“And then you find a whole new religion,” I love that.
Thanks for the kind words. I’m not very religious anymore but I swear my ‘faith’ was renewed when I saw that scenery.
I am deeply religious in ways that have nothing to do with church. So needless to say, your post speaks to me.
Amen…hallelujah, Marco. These days I attend the Mother Nature Church of Beauty and Spirituality.
That’s where it’s at!
yes, lots of gold color!
It’s so beautiful especially with fall sunlight.
Fall is definitely a good time to be in Colorado!
It’s incredibly beautiful this time of year.
As I remember, hiking in the Vail area was so breathtaking I didn’t notice the pain.
Precisely. You’re only reminded when you get home. 😊
Inspires one to belt it out just like Julie Andrews! 😉
Or John Denver. LOL
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We thought it was the hike up the mountain that took your breath away, Miss Monika, BOL, BOL! XOX Xena and Lucy
It did in both directions. 😊
Gorgeous! We are surrounded by those aspens 🙂 But they are in the fog today.
Not a bad thing, especially if there’s moisture with that fog. 😉
Beautiful, photo, Monika.
Thanks John, Mother Nature is quite the composer when it comes to conducting a symphony of beauty. ⛰