Lots of Color

It's officially fall (it started at 12:19 yesterday afternoon) and the trees are celebrating.

The patches of  red are mountain maple. The mountain maple lives in small groupings on the mountainsides.

The star of the autumn is the quaking aspen (aka quakies). Their lemon yellow leaves decorate the valley. The cottonwoods are dressed for the fall too. It's a colorful time of year. Catch it now as it goes away in about a week.

I did not take this picture, but you can see the color highlighting Mt. Moran in the Tetons. It's a pretty time of year.