Aspen trees splendor in the colorful Colorado autumn season. Aspens trees typically grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling. Each individual tree can live for 40-150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years, sending up new trunks as the older trunks die off above ground. […]
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Grazing horses in the Bonanza Valley, autumn season, Saguache County, Colorado. […]
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The Rocky Mountains twin peaks. “Longs Peak” on the North, 14,256? and “Mt. Meeker” 13,911? on the South. A view through autumn yellow cottonwood trees. […]
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A portrait scenic view of The Twin Peaks, Longs Peak 14,256′ and Mt. Meeker 13,911′ though a colorful Colorado giant autumn cottonwood tree. […]
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The Milky Way rising in the southwest sky above Colorado fall foliage of aspen trees in the middle of the Rocky Mountains Sangre de Cristo Wilderness and Sawatch range. […]
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Pumpkin pumpkin close up and personal. Pumpkins are one of my favorite plants in the garden. They really complete the fall harvest. This year we put too many seeds in the garden and ended up with only a couple small ones. […]
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South Park Colorado area with colorful aspen tree forest fall foliage with colors of red, yellow and gold. […]
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The time of year that mother nature shows her colors a beautiful scenic landscape view of the snowcapped Colorado Rocky Mountains in full autumn golden colorful fall foliage. […]
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Independence Pass is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. It is at elevation 12,095 ft (3,687 m) on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake counties. […]
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