Blogging serves a few different purposes for me, one of which is to post enough information about our lives here to make it a little easier to keep loved ones far away somewhat up to date with us, should they so wish. I'm so bad with the phone calls. And though I wouldn't elevate this to "journal" status, it still serves to help me and my lame memory from losing so much of our passing lives in the thick fog of forgetfulness.
So more in the spirit of the second reason, we did take another drive into the back country weekend before last and hit the aspens just about right, this time (as opposed to two weeks previously when it was merely gorgeous without the yellow of the aspens). This time, we drove a beautiful and familiar loop, heading east up 20 to 80 and over to Truckee for the first leg.
I don't know if I've mentioned it before (that fog I'm talking about), but I've taken hundreds of photos of Colfax, a town on the railroad about 1/2 hour south of us for a friend of my dad's who, with an amazing group of model-railroad enthusiasts, needed the pictures to create a perfect recreation of that town for their enormous construction.
They're about finished with Colfax and now need the same treatment for Truckee. In July, Tom and I drove up there and took photos until my memory card was full, about 250 pics. This latest trip to Truckee served to help me continue with that project. After roughly 450 pictures, I'm still only about 2/3 through the buildings they need. I'll try to get up there one more time before the snow gets too deep.
Anyway, from Truckee, we hopped onto 89 North through the huge and majestic Sierra Valley to 49, which brought us back to Grass Valley through Sierra City and Downieville along the north fork of the Yuba.
Yeah, it's a beautiful drive. Here are some of the views. The last picture is that of our front patio area where our American tulip tree is an astonishing yellow at the moment.
