Autumn

The weather here on the Front Range of Colorado has changed this week. Fall is in the air. The leaves have just started to turn down here on the plains but it is cooler and wetter so fall is officially here.

Pumpkin Patch

It has been a good growing season for pumpkins this year and you can see we have a bumper crop. This pumpkin patch is just down the street from where we live here in Longmont. Yesterday, October 1st, was their first day of operation. A lot of care had been taken to get everything just right. It had rained just before I took this picture and I thought the clouds might add something to the scene.

Pumpkin Wagon

This wagon was loaded with pumpkins and setting out in front of the barn. I took this picture from a low angle and then processed it as a modified fisheye in Photoshop. I call this “modified” because it is done with the Free Transform Tool and you do not get the full effect of a fisheye lens. It still makes for an interesting picture.

Long’s Peak

As I said earlier the weather has turned colder down here on the plains. Up in the mountains it has gotten a lot cooler. The rain we got here yesterday was snow in the mountains. After being mostly gray for the summer the mountains on the Front Range are now a dazzling white-capped. This is Long’s Peak in the background which Longmont is named after. I expect there is even more snow on the mountains today.

Now where did I put my winter coat? Oh, I guess it doesn’t matter because we are leaving for Florida soon.