this is what fall looks like : hiking to desolation lake {part one}

{may i suggest listening to these violins while you look? it's really sort of magical...}

i can't get over how soon autumn has come...this is what i ached for

all those years we lived away from the mountains. and here it is, just out my door.

i was giddy about wearing flannel and wool hiking again {though the wool eventually came off}.

around each corner my lips grinned and i turned to ceej and proclaimed my 

undying affection for this autumn season: the colors, the smells, the cool air,

the way an aspen tree sheds its leaves with a gust of wind...oh my heart!

this was a morning hike worthy of true awe. 

this morning ceej and i had plans to go running up the canyon,

but as soon as i tied my laces i heard the rain start...

so we went to our yoga mats instead and opened up the windows to hear the rain.

it's raining...and i can hardly contain myself. 

the first snow of the year is on its way to my mountains this week.

have you ever experienced the first dusting of snow in the mountains?

that lovely white layer of snow over the yellow and orange aspens

is something that every eye should behold in this life.  

i'm quite sure that the best of magic happens in autumn.

have you been to the mountains yet? it's incredible.