Tall Aspens, Monitor Pass. Sierra Nevada, California. October 6, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Photographed on an autumn morning after early season snow.

Fall Color, Aspendell. Sierra Nevada, California. October 7, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

After getting up before dawn, driving hundreds of miles, and searching up and down eastern Sierra gravel roads for colorful aspen groves I was almost embarrassed to join the other dozen or more photographers working this scene right next to the road on the edge of the small village of Aspendell. :-)

Aspen Grove, Sunset – Monitor Pass. Sierra Nevada, California. September 29, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

The very last light of the day touches the upper branches of these aspens in a grove at Monitor Pass.