Roaring Plains is a remote wilderness near Dolly Sods. It is largely northern boreal forest like Dolly Sods, so it shares many of the same characteristics. But because it is more remote Roaring Plains has a sense of isolation I rarely experience on Dolly Sods. Out beyond Roaring Plains is Mount Porte Crayon (elevation 4770 feet).

The red berry clusters are on an American mountain ash, Sorbus americana, and yes they really are this intensely red. The twisted tree in front of is probably black cherry, Prunus serotina, though it might be fire cherry, Prunus pensylvanica. It had already dropped it leaves so I couldn’t tell. Leaves down by September 15 and its twisted shape suggests that the weather here is a tad more extreme than in flatland. In back and to the right is a red spruce, Picea rubens.

28-90mm Leica Vario-Elmarit, Nikon 800e, Lr4, Ps CS6.