{"id":2909,"date":"2014-09-23T20:17:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T02:17:42","slug":"fall-color-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/fall-color-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Color Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dateline: Colorado, September 20 & 21, 2014<\/p>\n

The fall colors are at their peak in the high country throughout Park County according to Jerry and Pam Fields. These photos were taken over the weekend at and around their lot at 179 Sanderling Court located south of the hamlet of Como.<\/p>\n

\""Reds"<\/a>

“Reds” along Elkhorn Ranch Road<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rieneker<\/a>

Rieneker Ridge from The Lot<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Driveway<\/a>

Driveway into 179 Sanderling<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View<\/a>

View over South Park<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Fields’ RV is nicknamed “The Box”<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Turn<\/a>

Turn right\u00a0to\u00a0enter\u00a0Sanderling Court<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pam<\/a>

Pam Fields walks her 3 dogs, Blondie, Bru, and Jo \u00a0in their aspen grove<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Aspen<\/a>

Aspen at height of color season<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Hard<\/a>

Its hard to leave The\u00a0Box and return to the city during “color season”<\/p><\/div>\n

Although the color season will run for another two or three weeks, both Jerry and Pam agreed\u00a0 this weekend was the high point for color. “Although there are still some green aspen, it won’t be long until the leaves begin to fall and create bare spots on the hills.” said Pam. Jerry added that “Now is the best time to get out and see the broad swaths of colors on the hills and ridges.”<\/p>\n

We agree.<\/p>\n

This year’s colors have a good deal more red in them than normal, it seems. Due to the cool spring and wetter-than-average August\u00a0\u00a0the trees produced more sugar to support late summer growth. Anthocyanins are produced during these \u201clots of sugar-lots of light\u201d conditions\u2014and then, with the very cool evenings, the veins of the leaves gradually close\u2014leaving behind the gorgeous reds. (Carotenoid pigments, also present, turn other leaves yellow.) At any rate, the annual color change provides vistas of reds, yellows, and greens for us to view and enjoy.<\/p>\n

The color season generally runs\u00a0through the second week in October. A check of the aspen around Vail\u00a0reveals around 50 percent of them have changed color but a\u00a0sizeable number of areas are still green or just beginning to change. Vibrant colors are now a common sight but they won’t last long; get out now and enjoy the season!<\/p>\n

(End dateline.)<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dateline: Colorado, September 20 & 21, 2014 The fall colors are at their peak in the high country throughout Park County according to Jerry and Pam Fields. These photos were taken over the weekend at and around their lot at 179 Sanderling Court located south of the hamlet of Como. Although the color season will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}