It's early fall and the aspens in the mountains near Santa Fe are starting to change to gold.....

So it's time for our annual aspencade to see nature in her autumn glory....

Baldy already has snow....

In fact, it snowed at these lower climes last night....

Dwight loves this time of year.......

It's back to the beauty and solitude of the forest......

This branch was one of many knocked down by a violent wind storm last night....

OOps a repeat--I guess Dwight is still contemplating his innermost connection to nature....

A cold cold stream.....

By the way, if you may have forgotten, the sky is REALLY blue in New Mexico in autumn......

To paraphrase Robert Frost: "I chose the path less travelled, and that has made all the difference..."

Contemplation....

Diana prior to taking a bath in the mountain stream.....

" Now that I'm all clean and invigorated, where is that car?"

A study in contrasts....

In nature we have the opportunity to find our true selves...

"Be not blind, but open-eyed, to the wonders of nature, familiar, everyday objects though they be to thee. But men are more wont to be astonished at the sun's eclipse than at his unfailing rise." Zadikkim