Post 300 - A Date with Color

Ted and I tried to start a tradition of going to look at the Autumn colors every year. It started two years ago - and we missed last year. Tradition isn't going very well - but, this year we managed to go. This year we went on the Alpine Loop. It's a scenic drive through Utah County and I have to say we couldn't have gone to a more lovely area. So damned beautiful up there.

Let me describe it a bit. It starts in Alpine and goes by the Timpanogas Cave and keeps going up and up. The summit is over 8,000 feet. It's a VERY narrow two-laned road that in most places the speed limit is 20 miles per hour. It has several pull outs so that you can stop and look at the scenery. We ended at Sundance Resort where enjoyed an hour-long round trip ride on the ski lift and went way up the mountain and then turned around and came back. It was AMAZING!!! On the way up, the sun beat down on us and caused a little sunburn. On the way back, it was pretty cold. We watched as all these people, including small children, headed up in shorts and t-shirts. We could only imagine what they felt on the way down.

Once at the bottom, there was a Farmer's Market going on and they offered lunch for sale. Though a bit pricey, we decided to go ahead and have lunch there. Overall, an amazing, relaxing, beautiful, scenic, wonderful day with an amazing guy. I love going out and spending time with him.

My purpose for sharing our day is to share the lovely scenery that we encountered. I am very blessed and grateful to live in an area where this is a day drive and I can encounter this in my backyard. Though not the same as being there - enjoy!!

Entering the canyon

Skinny two-laned road

Beauty

Someone forgot their panties this summer swimming in the creek
Sorry - I found it kind of funny.

The creek

Some color

Gorgeous day

Fall leaves on the bridge

This one makes me think of the pictures on the jigsaw
puzzles of long ago. Except, you have to take my car and
the truck out of the picture.

Mountain covered with the first snow of the season

Me and my guy - and his funky glasses

Mountain behind the evergreens

I love this picture of the sun coming through the trees.

I think it got skinnier

We found snow - melting snow - but snow

We were this high - the summit

I think this person goes with the panties down the road

I love him - and different glasses

The woman who took the above picture was a bit
freaked out I think when Ted asked her to get in the
traditional foot shot

Flower

'Nother flower

Color

I loved the mountain peaks poking through

Just more beauty

Going up

Color

What goes up - must come down

Lunch

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