Leafing a little Late

Okay, usually when you look at a picture of the beautiful aspens changing color it does not include snow. Well too bad, my picture does. We love to go look at the changing colors every fall, but we always seem to remember how much we love this about one week too late. Last year we didn't have snow, but we could tell that we missed a lot of the leaves {the bare trees were a dead giveaway} So this year as we headed towards Mt.Evans and we began to see the snow fall we realized we had done it again, we came a little late. As the visibility started to diminish we were worried that even if some leaves were still on the trees we weren't going to be able to see them. The snow started to slow and as we made our turn to towards the mountain we were happy we decided to brave the weather and continue with our tradition. It was so nice to see the bright leaves of the aspens up against the freshly fallen snow. It turns out we saw something even more beautiful by being a week off schedule. We weren't the only ones up there either, there were tons of people pulled over and snapping pictures {they probably laughed when they saw the only camera I had was the one on my phone, but I can't find my camera charger, so it had to do} We had a nice relaxing drive through the mountains and Max slept the whole way{I'm sure when he woke up he was wondering if we had gotten out and done something fun without him, since when we got home he seemed confused about our little drive to nowhere}. As we were starting our trip home Max did wake up in time to see the snow falling, this made me very excited for the snow to make its way down to our house, because Max is going to love playing in a backyard full of it! We topped of a great day by having dinner at our favorite BBQ joint, where I got plenty of "glares" from the older couple next to us. Once Max was asleep we watched the movie that I rented last Tuesday and called it a night. So as it turned out we did ourselves a favor by being a week late on our adventure. We got to do "leafing" a whole new way, and it was great. Sometimes the best days can be created out of nowhere, and yesterday we sure created a good one.

Kelly Callahan