I was on my way home from a 4 day stay in Mammoth Lakes California while driving east along highway 120 in the Lee Vining canyon when this scene presented itself before me so I stopped the truck to find a good place to take the photograph. I climbed atop a small hill to obtain this vantage point looking down on the fall foliage in the foreground while providing a spectacular view of the eastern Sierra in the distance. The wind was very gusty on this hill top, it was almost impossible to take a single photograph, at one point it blew the camera and tripod over but luckily I was close by and caught it before it struck the ground. There were just a few lulls in the wind which did allow me to get off a few shots. The clouds were changing very rapidly as well as the occasional jet vapor trails which I had to contend with. It seemed as if every time the wind would slow down enough to fire off the shutter there was at least one prominent jet vapor trail in the image which in my opinion would be unacceptable in a photograph.