A Personal Amateur Photography Blog
Park City is only a 35 minute drive from downtown Salt Lake City if you take the freeway. It is a much longer trip taking the road up over Guardsman Pass, but well worth every minute.
As with other high altitude drives on this trip, once you got up over 8000′ in elevation the trees were spectacular with their fall foliage.
Eventually you drop down into Park City.
While most of Arizona is known for the hot desert landscape there are places where in just a few miles, or feet in elevation, that changes completely. One of those areas is Ramsey Canyon near Sierra Vista, less than 10 miles from the Mexican border in the Huachuca Mountains.
Because of a spring feed stream, high canyon walls and an orientation facing northeast, the canyon has numerous sycamore and maple trees – very un-Arizona like.
The creek bank has even more wetlands vegetation.
The Ramsey family had settled in the canyon around 1900 and over the years built a couple of cabins.
As you hike through the preserve and climb up just a few feet above the stream you quickly go back to more typical Arizona landscape.
While in some spots the desert like landscape is integrated with the wetlands.
The canyon is home to lots of wildlife.
The trip back down the canyon to the visitor center returned us to the colorful foliage. Ramsey Canyon is a great destination for a different look at Arizona.
Madera Canyon is less than an hour south of Tucson, but a world away from an ecological perspective. While the base of the canyon is around 3500′ elevation, you can easily and quickly drive to over 5000′, and if you are energetic (I was not), you can hike to the top of 9456′ high Mt Wrightson.
We chose to hike around the lower areas of the canyon, which were beautiful, offer views from desert to fall tree colors.
This posting of drone views focuses on the fall foliage.
The leaves seem to be changing fast, so it is a tough call to wait a week, or capture the mix of green, and the changed leaves. Clearly the tree lawn trees in this neighborhood are all the same, as they all have the same red leaves for the moment.
One of my personal favorite photos in a long time – Alum Creek State Park.
Another nearby view.
The trees are changing but with enough chemicals the golf courses will stay green until December.
Delaware Ohio State Park
The dam for the park. Whoever lives in the house in the foreground has the greatest confidence in the dam, and clearly is not a Johnstown, Pennsylvania native.
A return to Fairfield County covered bridges, and in the case below, an old canal lock.
This challenged my drone flying – a small space between the power lines, the trees, and the ravine.
Another tight spot for a bridge view – note how close the tree on the right is.
A neighborhood in Lancaster. The large house on the hill appears to be ruling over the smaller ones scattered across the photo like some old English estate.
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