When fall comes to Colorado, many photographers turn into leaf peepers, and I am no exception. While leaf peeping may sound slightly risque, it is actually a pretty nice thing to do.
It got me away from my easy chair this afternoon and out to Boulder County’s Coot Lake Open Space, nine miles northeast of my apartment. I took the 1.2 mile trail that circles the lake and wetlands just to the west of Coot Lake. After an aspen teaser a few days ago near Mud Lake up in the Front Range, I wanted to see some of the trees down here turning to gold and remembered the cottonwoods and reeds in wetlands here.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Gretchen // Oct 19, 2014 at 4:10 am
Lovely. Do no trees turn red out there?
2 David Mendosa // Oct 19, 2014 at 6:50 am
We have maples in the city, Gretchen, but not out in nature.
3 George Victor // Dec 20, 2014 at 5:46 am
This must be a wounderful place to live and experience some untouched areas of mother nature.
4 David Mendosa // Dec 20, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Dear George,
I certainly agree. It is perhaps the best place in this country to get out into nature easily. I had thought that Alaska might be better until I visited friends there. They were afraid to go hiking — even when it wasn’t bitter cold with lots of snow and ice — because of the bears there. Alaska is a great place to visit in the summer and in a vehicle or with an armed guide, and I have loved my three trips there, but I will stay in Boulder, Colorado.
Best regards,
David