Nice day in high altitude...

Today I drove North a total of three hours each way, but with many photo stops. Finally, I'm seeing some larger groves of colorful trees, and hope the Fall colors will finally arrive before I run out of days. Tick, tick, tick...

This is a nice grove atop Monitor Pass. Almost all of the color so far has been quite high. For my purposes, I need that change to spread down near Mono Lake.

 

At the farthest point of my drive, I stopped in at Lake Alpine, nearly deserted and placid after the end of its season:

 

 

For the rest of the ride, I enjoyed high mountain vistas and zillions of fir trees:

 

 

There were lakes everywhere, including this one--which had a small welcoming committee!

 

 

 

Lots more, but no time to process them until I get home. We'll call this the 'lakes' trip, because there were so many!

 

. This is a small reservoir right beside the road East of

Ebbetts Pass:

 

 

Finally here's Topaz Lake on the main North/South route East of the Sierra.

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow, the real search for Fall colors--now that they are finally appearing! I'm down to three days!!...