Some recent hikes

It's the last day of August, and as Nora put it on a hike yesterday, 'the hills are starting to turn red'.  Yesterday I even noticed some red fireweed leaves.  Mostly though I think the red color is from the amazing amounts of red bunchberries and their leaves.  This year there seem to be more bunchberries than I can ever remember.  

I also recently checked on the alpine berries.  Weirdly enough the alpine blueberries are already mushy.  Did we actually have a frost on high?  But the lingonberries are still not quite ripe.  This year I plan on picking a lot of lingonberries.  And crowberries too.

Patrick

I took this at a low shutter speed to catch the leaves moving on a windy day in Abercrombie