Fall Foliage in Front of Sawtooth Mountain
by Renny Spencer
Title
Fall Foliage in Front of Sawtooth Mountain
Artist
Renny Spencer
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Sawtooth Mountain attempts to hide behind the various fall foliage colors. Located in the Davis Mountains of far west Texas in Jeff Davis County, near Fort Davis and Marfa off of highway 166.
Captured on the breezy cool morning of November 15, 2020.
https://www.go-texas.com/Davis-Mountains/#
"As one travels west on I-10 or I-20, out of the vast desert, on the horizon, slowly rises the purple mass of the Davis Mountains, the largest mountain chain entirely within Texas. Elevations range from 3,500 to 8,000 feet as they rise above the Chihuahuan desert. The mild climate and volcanic soils support a most biologically diverse selection of mountain flora and fauna.
The mountains receive more rain than the surrounding Trans-Pecos area and therefore have vegetation not found in the desert lowlands, such as pi¤on pine, black cherry, alligator juniper, live and dwarf gray oak, yellow and limber pine and the unusual and rare Madrone tree. The fall colors truly rival the best of northern and eastern states."
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/sawtooth-mountain
".Sawtooth Mountain is in the Davis Mountains twenty-two miles northwest of Fort Davis in central Jeff Davis County (at 30°41' N, 104°14' W). It rises to an elevation of 7,686 feet above sea level, some 1,700 feet above the Rockpile, a mile northeast of the summit. On the mountain a surface of shallow, stony soils supports scrub brush and grasses. In 1941 engineers of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation discovered the name of Christopher (Kit) Carson carved on a huge boulder, with the date December 25, 1839, at the Rockpile."
---Renny Spencer
https://rennyspencerphotography.com
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November 15th, 2020
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Comments (57)
Bee Creek Photography - Tod and Cynthia
Nice fall capture!
Renny Spencer replied:
Tod and Cynthia, thank you!!! ---Renny Spencer https://rennyspencerphotography.com
Marlin and Laura Hum
Beautiful!
Renny Spencer replied:
Marlin and Laura, thank you!!! ---Renny Spencer https://rennyspencerphotography.com