Wedding of Autumn Fairy and Snow White

Utah USA 

Big Cottonwood Canyon

Abstract Painting?

Chong Ho Alex Yu

October 2011

October is the prime time for fall colors, which are typically red, orange, and yellow. But in some areas there is an extra color: white resulted from snowing. I call it the wedding between Autumn Fairy and Snow White. You can be a witness of this beautiful wedding in Utah if and only if you are at the right location in the right moment with the right equipment. These pictures were taken in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, and Spanish Fork in a freezing day. It is funny that at that time the temperature in Utah was about 39 degree, but a day before I was complaining about the heat in Phoenix, Arizona (93 degree).
My pair of hiking shoes is suitable to the desert in Arizona, but not the snow mountains in Utah. In addition, my rental car was a sedan, not a SUV. When I was driving on Little Cottonwood Canyon Road, I saw a small car slipping into a ditch. At that point I decided to turn my car back, and thus these pictures are the best I could do given the limited resources.