{"id":59,"date":"2008-10-01T21:43:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T03:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-10-01T21:43:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T03:43:33","slug":"its-snowing-yellow-aspen-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/its-snowing-yellow-aspen-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s snowing yellow aspen leaves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a beautiful experience.  I was working outside today, alone, surrounded by Aspen trees.  The weather was sunny and comfortably warm, but not hot.  Suddenly, a gust of wind came.  And the gust kept coming.  The gust brought a present: the flickering tick of the yellow leaves in the trees, and suddenly I was surrounded by yellow.  It was snowing yellow Aspen leaves.  I smiled, awakened from the drone of work by the beautiful spectacle.  I smiled not only because of the beauty, but because it was fall.  And everyone knows what comes after fall&#8230;.  winter is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is exciting in Crested Butte.  During the day, people where T-shirts and shorts.  But at night, everyone sports their puffies.  It&#8217;s always a good feeling when you break out the puffy for the first time.   Fall is a time of anticipation for the people of Crested Butte.   The typical September showings of the latest Two-Planks and Matchsticks Productions ski movies send jitters through the minds of the Buttians.  We love our snow here.  The Vinotok ceremony is as much a reminder that fall is here as it is a celebration of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that winter is so close can make it difficult to appreciate this spectacular time of year.  But the wind woke me up today and reminded me.  Because of that, I&#8217;d like to share some photos taken this past weekend when I rode the Dyke Trail with my friend Sonya and her friend Julie.<\/p>\n<p>Sonya<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_5810.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/IMG_5810.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sonya and Julie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_5814.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/IMG_5814.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoying the view<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_5816.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/IMG_5816.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Raggeds<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_5817.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/IMG_5817.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the fall colors!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_5819colors.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i241.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff107\/brittanysblog\/DykeTrailSep2008\/IMG_5819colors.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had a beautiful experience. I was working outside today, alone, surrounded by Aspen trees. The weather was sunny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}