While colorful aspens are definitely the star of autumn, rabbitbrush is one of few flowering plants in bloom in the fall. These rabbitbrush were done with their yellow flowers but they still make for an interesting foreground, especially with snow-covered mountains for a backdrop. It’s not uncommon to get snow in September and October in the northern Rockies and these snows often shut down roads in Yellowstone National Park. This image wasn’t taken there but in another of my favorite places. The beauty of Montana is that it has a lot of treasures among it’s landscapes and appropriately it’s known as “the treasure state.”