I was in the mountains to hunt. My quest was ducks in the mornings and deer in the evenings. However, I stepped into a world of fall colors so vivid that even a totally colorblind person such as myself could not help but take notice and enjoy.
- Early in the afternoon following my early morning duck hunt, the blue sky and white cotton clouds dominated the sky providing a perfect backdrop for the fall colors covering the mountains.
- The photographer in me took over and instead of taking a stand waiting for a deer to pass, I traveled the mountains capturing the fall colors.
Later in the day when a hunter would be taking to the woods to post on stand for the remainder of the evening, the rain arrived. Rain showers would pass over the mountains hiding the peaks among the clouds. A few minutes later the rain would stop and the sun would reappear. The results were breathtaking.
- Parked mountaintop, I waited for the clouds to pass and for the sun to return.
Soon the darkness took hold of the day and the night arrived. I slept soundly in my new camp and was up before the dawn. I had a place to be, my favorite place to watch the sunrise. The morning was cold, specially for early October. The thermometer read 35 degrees. Sitting in the truck with the heat on for the first time this season, I watched the mountains appear from out of the darkness.
The weekend was planned to be full of hunting adventure. Sure, I pursued and missed a few wood ducks in a beaver pond, flushed and shot a ruffled grouse, and spent one evening sitting among wild apple trees on a whitetail deer hunt, but the weekend will be remembered for the fall colors.
- Falling leaves at rest
- The frosty morning view from my camp
A special shout out goes to Min Enghauser who gracicouly helped a colorblind fellow edit his fall colors.
