Beautiful light at about 11 am. This was an area above St Paul that I often drive by. Today we stopped. There are trails everywhere. I love to shoot into the light when it is lighting up the leaves.
The "smoke " shrub ( cotinus) Plant, that I know from California, growls wild here. In the fall the colors change and move toward red. Macro shots to come.
http://www.finegardening.com/plantguide/genus/cotinus.aspx