Color, Color....Everywhere!

I have been outside for the last four weeks

taking as many fall pictures

as possible!

Therefore, I am woefully behind in my loyal daily reading

of many of your wonderful blogs..to which I apologize.

But, here in the U.P.

it is a lonnnnng winter,

so I will go to each of your sites soon

and read all your back posts, I promise!

My post today will show you

some of the autumn beauty

which I have been trying to capture from the U.P.

for you.

First up,

this is a river about 5 miles from our house:

As you can see, that picture was taken when our leaves were in full color.

Believe it or not,

there is not a single colored leaf left in this same spot today.

We drove by yesterday, and there are only pines and bare branches.

A few weeks before the above picture was taken, we went to

Copper Harbor.

(click on link)

Here is a map of Michigan, Students.

See the UPPER land mass of Michigan?

That is the UPPER PENINSULA (U.P.) of Michigan, where we live.

If you look at the map of the U.P.

you will see a little "finger" sticking out at the top of the map

at the northern most tip of the U.P.

There is a little town named Copper Harbor there.

It is gorgeous.

At Copper Harbor is a wonderful mountain

called Brockway Mountain.

Click on the link to see more about it.

The pictures below were all taken off

the top of Brockway Mountain Drive

when the leaves were about 60% in color....

This is looking down at Lake Fannie Hoe:

 If you look close, you can see that the leaves are in all kinds of different stages of color...some are still green, and some of the hills far off in the distance are in full color.

You can see Lake Superior at the top of this photo:

Looking straight at the shores of Lake Superior from the top of Brockway:

You see beauty all 360 degrees when you look off the top:

Almost full color here:

This shot shows the different stages of color the best:

It is spiritual:

I spent most of the day Ooo-wing and Ahhh-ing:



I hope I provided you

with a small fraction

of the

wonder of autumn

that I felt that day!