Autumn Enjoyment

I, personally, have been looking forward to today. My day off with beautiful weather. I needed to get some fall into my system. I believe that Oliver would have enjoyed a day at home just as much, but he was kind enough to let us all have a family outing.

After lunch we began to head northwest to find the western entrance to the Alpine Loop through the Lone Peak Wilderness and the Uinta National Forest. we’ve traveled on the Loop before but decided to go a few directions that we’d never gone before. The first new turn was toward Tibble Fork Reservoir. It was a beautiful road with great changing trees leading us to this little reservoir. A little further up we found the Granite Flat campground that made us start dreaming of bringing family members.

After getting back on the main Loop Byway, we made a stop that said “Alpine Summit”. so the following photos show my slight love affair with Aspen trees. It’s absolutely beautiful, very peaceful and a little bit enchanting.

Photo by Oliver

Photo by Oliver

I’m not trying to be vain and show a billion pictures of myself, but the picture above and below this comment were taken by Ryan. At first we thought he wasn’t actually getting us in the shot, but then we got the photo below that’s actually really cool!

The next turn off the road took us toward Cascade Springs. I never knew there was something back in these mountains that looks like this. It was fascinating…and accessible(so we could strap Evan into the stroller and know he wouldn’t be jumping into the water).

Photo by Oliver

After this, we took a road toward Midway & Heber through the Wasatch Mountain State Park, found a place to eat and made it home in time to relax before going to bed.

I love fall.