Montana, Day 2 on the scenic route to Washington State

I love all of the subtle colors of winter that mostly people just take for granted as being 'grey'. If you look back over all of these photos you'll see a variety of brilliant color accenting the shades of grey. This is a big inspiration of mine when I paint landscapes and one of my favorite things to notice when I am driving cross country in the winter. I couldn't get a good photo of them but there where these beautiful leafless trees that had bright, bright yellow branches. They were really spectacular in front of the purple/blue mountains but they were usually near houses or telephone poles and I didn't think it would make that fine of a photo. More tomorrow or maybe even tonight!