Aspen Mania

We took a fall drive today.

 The autumnal equinox is 2 days away and I was really itching to get out of the house. 

My heart soared.

Love those aspen tree trunks. 

Stopped at one of our favorite places to hang out. 

Chester sat in dog poo here.

On this rock.

Really?

And then so did Audrey. 

LOL.

Audrey instructed me to get a shot of the red rimmed aspen leaves.

Lucy asked to get a shot of the ombre colored aspens for a future pastel. 

Then a really nice woman offered to take a photo of me with the children. This is when I wish we were wearing more muted fall colors or just anything to accent the beauty around us.

 Always designing in my head.

It's a problem sometimes.

Sometimes I imagine I was on a sub committee for designing the earth for Heavenly Father.

 I'm pretty sure I was on the color and proportion team.

Chester kept shouting for joy, 

"It's aspen mania!! I want to kiss those trees"

Gray skies are my favorite with fall foliage. 

Somehow mother nature just pops those colors out with the darker back drop. To die for. 

Lucy took this shot off the Peak to Peak highway.

I am clinging to this quote right now. We all ebb and flow in life. And there are markers for change in all of us.

That is what real life is meant to be;

to change and become better versions of ourselves. 

Little steps at a time.

But this quote is far more accurate about how I am really doing.

I laughed so hard I cried.

 Thanks Andy Dwyer.