Bayfield, Colorado - I love the Fall/Winter weather! Especially in the SW Rockies of Colorado! For the past week, the mountains have been brightening up the mountainsides in the San Juan mountains with its hues of golden aspens with the help of the reddish hues of the scrub oaks that are coming back and mingled with the Ponderosa and other pines that survived the 2002 San Juan forest fire that sweeped through the Lemon and Vallecito Reservoir.