October 17, 2006
Missing: 1 Season
It's snowing outside! Ok, so it's not accumulating, but seriously, what happened to the Fall?
Fall is my favorite season and Colorado has managed to completely skip over it this year. I heard all sorts of gushing over the beautiful yellow-gold that the Aspens turn every year in the mountains. But an early snow in September managed to strip them all of their leaves only about a week after they'd turned. So when I was up in the mountains this weekend, there was not a yellow tree in sight.
In case you're curious about Aspens, whole communities of them are apparently technically the same organism, they are all genetically the same and share a common root system. Possibly the largest and oldest organism on earth, Pando, is one such colony of Aspens in Utah.
Fall is my favorite season and Colorado has managed to completely skip over it this year. I heard all sorts of gushing over the beautiful yellow-gold that the Aspens turn every year in the mountains. But an early snow in September managed to strip them all of their leaves only about a week after they'd turned. So when I was up in the mountains this weekend, there was not a yellow tree in sight.
In case you're curious about Aspens, whole communities of them are apparently technically the same organism, they are all genetically the same and share a common root system. Possibly the largest and oldest organism on earth, Pando, is one such colony of Aspens in Utah.
// posted by Julie @ 12:24 PM 
