A new storm-quick moving rolled through the high country yesterday leaving a little more new snow on the mountains and rain at lower elevations.  Aspens are dissapearing fast but what a color year with more reds in the leaves then I have ever seen.  willows hang on leaving color with the racing clouds skirting the Pinnacles with veils of light and dark.  Brooks Lake Creek adds an encor to the scene.

A lot of our Aspens have lost their leaves but those that remain are contrasted with the white of the snow.

The Wind River, just a stream here, flows through a changed world of white at sunrise

Winter has set in in the high country.  We have only received a skiff in town but the mountains surrounding us have a nice fresth white covering.  There is close to two feet in the mountains.  It does make for a beautiful landscape and should pretty well lay down the fires that have been burning for the past several months surrounding us.

There are many beautiful streams that course there way out of the Wind Rivers and the Absarokas.  this is just one of them.  Warm Springs Creek in fall dress.  So named because of the warm springs that feed into it in the canyon below this spot.  the heat of that water keeps the Wind River ice free for many miles including its passage through Dubois.

My kind of road.
Brent Creek Road at the heighth of the color season for Aspens.  They are all ready beginning to fall and with the predicted storm with snow forcast by tomorrow the gold season will soon be over. 
About a mile above this spot an Oil well is to be drilled that could possibly change this area forever.  Fracking is also a possibility.  I guess my feelings are that if we are having to look for oil in such places then we are way overdo in finding alternate energy sources.  It is heartbreaking.

The rising sun floods the Aspens along the Brent Creek road revealing a surreal effect against the smokey background of the Winchester meadows below.