R. Doug Wicker — Author

And so we continued motoring through the once agricultural areas along the Rio Grande in El Paso’s Upper Valley.  The temperatures were coolish, but not uncomfortably so as we swept along tree-lined streets lined with stately homes.  The roadster’s roof was stowed, the windows were rolled down, and the wind wrapped its caressing embrace about our heads.  Frequently we would pull over, Ursula would hand me the G1 X, and I would compose the shot by holding the camera up over the windshield or to either side of the roadster.

Fall really is the best time of year here in El Paso.  Below are today’s fall foliage photos.  One rather fun shot is of a statue carved from a large tree trunk, her smiling face framed by the colors of the season as she stands guard at an opening in a low rock wall.

Yesterday, November 25, El Paso was still suffering through roadster weather.  The skies were clear, the temperatures made it into the low 70s (around 21° to 22° Celsius), and the colors of fall are beginning to lose their luster.  We were a bit late this year getting out into El Paso’s Upper Valley area along the Rio Grande.  Not all the photos were taken in this area, however.  Some were snapped nearer to the Franklin Mountains close to where we live.

Even so, we still managed to capture some of the color.  For this day’s photographs I used the Canon G1 X.  I selected ISO 100 for maximum detail, and white balance was set to sunny daylight.  Minor adjustments were made in post processing to enhance contrast and color saturation.

So, this week we celebrate the fall colors of El Paso, starting with the following: