Maybe it's just because it's still early into autumn, at least foliage-wise. Or maybe it's not the most fantastic autumn because it's been rather wet and windy. For whatever reason, though, a recent trip to the Coal Creek Nature Park was a bit disappointing. The maples (vine and bigleaf) whose color had already turned didn't look very good - the leaves, instead of turning nicely yellow or orange, just had nasty brown spots on them. I was especially disappointed by the vine maples, since I've heard that those turn nice colors in the fall. Maybe that applies more to sunnier places or the mountains or something. Most of the forest made it seem that autumn had never come; instead, summer had just died and began to rot away with nothing to take its place.
Still, some of the trees looked nice, including some of the cottonwoods and one tree whose leaves had interesting red spots. My pictures of those were the day's best.
I also got some nice pictures along wide spot on the trail. They were a bit dark, but it's nothing a bit of brightening in editing software couldn't fix. As soon as I can afford editing software. Soon. Very soon.
And, finally, these ones of the forest. I liked the way the colors turned out, despite the depressing leaves.
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