We often think we have to take a long distance trip to get good photographs, but sometimes all you have to do is go out onto your front porch. Actually I went a little further, passing through my neighbor's yard and up the hill a little to get away from the trees that are getting taller every year. The first round of color wasn't much to write home about, but I waited a little longer hoping for something to happen and it did. I went to work rotating the camera around on the tripod as the light changed on various points of the mountains. I had to work fast because it doesn't often does not last long. Finally I packed it up and descended the hill into the Neighbor's yard and headed for home. It was nice this morning that I didn't have to go far.  (This image is a 6 image stitch. It was shot at 400 ISO, 1/80th of a sec, f-5, 100mm with a Canon 5DSR.)