Fall Delicious
Photo Location: North Lake, CA
There is a week in October in the Eastern Sierra when the aspens don't just turn — they ignite. Not gradually, not tentatively, but all at once and completely, the entire canopy going from green to a gold so saturated and warm that it stops reading as color and starts reading as light. You can stand in the middle of it and feel like you're inside something rather than looking at it.
I was in the aspens above Bishop when this happened. The afternoon light was coming through from a low angle and the leaves were doing what Eastern Sierra aspens do at the height of fall — holding every photon, radiating warmth, making the air itself seem amber. There is no other word for this quality of autumn color. It is generous and warm and excessive in the best possible way. This is October in California's high country as a physical sensation — the kind of color that makes you understand why people (me in particular lol) drive five hours from Los Angeles every year just to stand in it for an afternoon.
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