The reds and the golds look a little bit odd this year. Despite the nice white on the straight and up and down parts, something just isn’t quite right. I don’t know if the black stuff is a fungus or not. And those little dots remind me of pixels or LEDs on a sign.

Maybe the forest fire smoke from Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, and Elbonia are messing up the colors.

The gold probably is the best of all the colors, and does look kind of impressive against the blue sky.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me show you what I mean:

This fall scene was taken at Silverthorn, Colorado. I don’t know. This fall just doesn’t seem like the ones in the past.