The most glorious Juneau fall

If you ask me what September and October are like in Juneau, I'd say grey and raining, all the time, every day.  But not this year.  This has been the most glorious Juneau fall.

We went to our friends' home on Saturday and got to explore the beautiful Douglas Island woods, taking a trail that starts out of their backyard.

At times, it required a little bit of bushwhacking..

...but with the late afternoon sun streaming through the trees and the subtle changes in colors of the moss and ferns, it was easy to want to keep pressing on.

Some of us stayed firmly planted on the ground, exploring the underside of a fallen tree,

others (namely, Cora) climbed up to get a view from a higher vantage point.

The trail went up quite a ways and then led out to a beautiful muskeg, which again the afternoon sunlight just seemed to make glow.

This has been the most glorious fall in Juneau!