I get depressed on the summer solstice. While it will still be warm for a few months, the days start getting shorter. I keep fighting the coming of Autumn as it is the harbinger of a time that I start work and finish work in the dark. Then comes the Fall colors in the Eastern Sierra and I fall in love with the season.

This year the Autumn colors came a bit early in the Sierra.  That said they did come in grand splendor. So this post is dedicated to Fall Color in the Sierra.

The colors speak for themselves so instead of having to listen to me ramble on in this post I will accompany the images with cool quotes about Autumn .

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
 

Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.

- Shira Tamir

… I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all of the daylight hours in the open air.

- Nathaniel Hawthorn

“I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.” 

― Lee Maynard

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” 

― Jim Bishop

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” 

― Chad Sugg

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”

 ― Lauren DeStefano, Wither