Author: Steve

From all over the Montezuma Valley, you can see the Sleeping Ute.

This is the longest lasting fall we’ve ever been through. It’s not like
they haven’t been having fall here for the last thirty-five years, we’ve
just never done it like this. We always mean to get up to the high country
for a drive to see the fall colors. Some years we never get to it at all
and miss it entirely. This year we’ve been wallowing in it for six weeks
and it’s still going on, and on, and on. Fall is gone from the highest
country, but a little change in elevation takes care of that.

I love this old cottonwood. We got to watch it start turning color but we
don’t get to watch it finish. Time to move on. Back to Montrose for a
couple days.

The morning sun makes a difference.

Sunsets in Cortez light up the mountains between there and Durango.