After the corn maze at Chatfield Farms

A cornfield maze tempted us, close aft arriving successful Colorado, to trek retired to Chatfield Farms, a autochthonal works refuge and moving workplace that’s portion of Denver Botanic Gardens. It was the extremity of September, and autumn was successful the air. After the maize maze (fun for astir 10 minutes), I took a stroll astir the autochthonal garden, which I’d past seen astatine the Denver Fling successful 2019.

An aged ceramic silo makes a vertical focal point, surrounded by spiky yuccas and flowering perennials that were drafting successful the bees.

Muhly writer pink, the colour of autumn successful occidental gardens

Silo with a young conifer tree

Sunny sunflowers

A tumble of late-season flowers are appealing against the backdrop of a large reddish barn.

Yucca and silo

On the different broadside of the barn, we recovered a picnic array adjacent a tiny pond and devoured a container of kettle corn. Mmm, autumn flavor.

I admired a bluish spruce and noticed a rabbit having an day nibble of its own.

Hello there

I emotion these powder-blue needles.

Black-eyed Susan and purple aster bring vivid autumn color.

It was my archetypal plot sojourn of the travel and a blessed preview of much goodness to travel astatine Denver Botanic Gardens.

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