POSTING THE COLORS

Here is another chapter in the Over the Pass Ramble.

The higher we went on the mountain road and the later it got in the day, the more fickle the sun became.

Or rather, the clouds with the breeze became more unpredictable.

We spotted bright statements of color across CleElum Lake and would quickly pull off the road

only to be frustrated because clouds suddenly covered the spotlighting source.

What we wanted to "shoot" would look dark and plain.

The bright exclamation points of gold punctuated first the near side, then the far side of the lake, and we couldn't capture either one in time!

Our side of the lake:

The far side:

Then our side:

 Then a little bit of both, but not as stunning as we had seen it to be seconds before:

In the northwest we do not have Spanish moss, but "Goat's beard":

We pulled into a remote campground and set up our cameras on the banks of the river,

with the enthusiasm of fishermen.  Only we hoped our "catch" would be a moment of sun on the trees: