Fall Colors

The girls and I were out for a walk and enjoying the autumn out-of-doors.

Nice colors at an aspen stand we regenerated the winder of 1998-1999.

The Frau and I clear-cut about two hundred aging aspen along the north property line.  Unless aspen are regenerated by disturbance (fire, cuttings, etc.) they mature, decline and die-off.  Following that the trees regenerated but root suckers.  Today we have a robust stand of mature trees.

Populus tremuloides: Quaking aspen is a stunning gold.

And Populus grandidentata: Bigtooth aspen is a stunning orange-red.