A fox popped out and ran across the road, by the time I got the camera turned on it was already down by the lake.

It followed the shore then popped out onto the thin ice between to open areas of water.

I wondered for a minute if I might see a fox fall through the ice, but I guess it had a soft touch and easily made it to the other side.

From the road

from up on the hill on McManus

Panorama to the north nice views from this spot to the east though as well.

Bottom of the hill back to Piedra road

The sunset started out slow then gradually got better

These are the peaks of the La Plata range over by Durango they are quite a ways off and we can barely see them from up here on the ridge.

The Blanco River

Panoramas

On the way home I stopped at the lake along 160 and tool this one

Pagosa Peak on the way up along Piedra Road

There was a little coyote in the field

Williams Lake

I took the forest service road into the Weminuche Valley past the Williams Lake cutoff.  It is  a steep climb and a skinny road it was getting late and I was wondering if I would get some views as the trees next to the road were pretty thick.  When you first come into the valley you see this falling down

building.

From the Valley floor

First view from up the hill

Up top as far as I went was a real panoramic view this photo doesn’t do it justice.  I’m not sure what the elevation was there but high enough to really get my heart pumping when I wander up a little path to get this photo

Coming back down the hill the sun was hitting this lighter stripe of rock in this mountain and it really caught my eye

Looking out over the valley again as the sun is getting really low in the sky

When I got back down to the valley this cow was outside her fence, the night before there had been a who bunch outside the fence along Piedra on the way home.

This is from when I headed down the street to see if there was snow up there

A little snow and a little aspen color

From Cloman Blvd.

from Piedra road

On the way home a hawk landed on a tree in front of me about 1/2 mile from the house

Panoramas

I think this was on scenic drive

Cloman blvd. Damn power lines there is no way to avoid them

Steven’s Lake Road

Piedra Road

There were nasty chemtrails all day but I headed out anyway and asked for some piece of the sky to be cleared and trusted my intuition to tell me where to go.  I did get some blue skies at the beginning the slowed faded to the disgusting chemtrail haze.

first you start going around square top

 You go up over a big hill then start to come down into the basin this one is part way down.

When you get into the basin you meet the Blanco River

There were lots of trees in the area that had not turned yet which surprised me based on how the colors were in the upper Piedra and Wolf Creek areas.

 I can upon this ranch entrance that I thought was interesting

 A nice little pond, this place I noticed was actually for sale.  Just a mere 1.3 million, it has river frontage though and 40 acres or so.

After going up to the end of the valley I went back and cut off on a forest service road.  There was a  fox there waiting for me but he didn’t hang out long enough to get his photo taken.  The aspens up there were brilliant, but the sky was whiting out!

 Panoramas

 Square Top

The Divide

 The Blanco river

The river valley

Here is a close up of one of the hills

The Bootjack

Treasure falls was almost non existent we haven’t had much rain the last few weeks.

up to the overlook

I always have to get a shot of this tree for some reason it just calls to me with the  rock with a hole in it.

The was a crow hanging out on the cliff making some noise and he kind of makes an interesting

silhouette.

On to Lobo overlook at around 11,000 feet it is 3 miles of dirt road of the main highway at the top of the pass.

You can see there were hills full of aspen but at this time of the day they were in the shade that combined with the clouds makes them pretty dull.

Here you can see the parking lot of the Wolf Creek Ski area

Coming back down the pass I stopped in on the west fork road

Took a little deer by surprise

West Fork of the San Juan River

Panorama’s for the day

bootjack

lobo overlook

This lobo overlook view has all of the Ski Area

The viewpoint above treasure falls

These were pretty much the first aspen I came upon

Here you can see how many are still green, still I love the contrast that they offer to the yellow and the dark green pines.

This is the first good view spot of Cimarrona Peak in the Weminuche wilderness area.

Williams Lake

trees reflected in the lake

Looks like a pretty great place to be a cow

The sun was fading but this hillside was lit up

The sun went down as I pass a little pond on the way home

Then it lit up the other side of the sky high above Pagosa Peak

Oh I almost forgot here is a panorama by the lake taken from the boat launch area.