A story for all you pixel peeping, fall foliage fanatics:
One upon an autumnal night a biiiiig, cooold, storm came along. Brrrr...
Oh, how the aspens did quake!
Their leaves suffered bravely but did freeze,
They became brown and black with frostbite,
Though a few survived,
Naked were others as they were changing out of their fall finery,
But take heart brave little soul, color still exists even without the yesterday's beloved aspens,
Now go the %*#@ to sleep!
(For the adults, and god do I hope there aren't any around here, large color displays in the Eastern Sierra above 9K limited or gone, below still possible by the end of October, all images Oct. 8 & 9, 2011),