Fall color is essentially over for us, but we enjoyed four weeks of it from the spectacular aspen on the left, which we saw at Copper Mountain on September 23, to our own large aspen on October 22. A few hours after that picture was taken, the winds came in at 30 mph, blowing most of the leaves off, and about 40 hours later, we woke up to our first snow.

While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. (Genesis 8.22, ESV)

Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. (Daniel 2.20, 21, ESV)