Alligator Hill

I was able to stop at Sleeping Bear on my way back from downstate on Saturday. It was your typical change-in-seasons day in Michigan — a driving rain one minute — a burst of sunshine the next. I headed down the road to my automatic first stop on any Sleeping Bear visit — Sleeping Bear Point, but halfway there I did an about face and decided that I'd take the stroll up Alligator Hill — something I hadn't done in several years. As I pulled in the trailhead parking lot the clouds parted and I couldn't get on my hike fast enough.
Autumn seems to be the hardest time of year for me to photograph. It's like there is so much going on that it's hard to distill my thoughts about what I'm experiencing. I took lots of pics on my hike but the couple I chose to display here are the most successful at capturing the day.