Wild flowers - Aspens...what is the difference?

In central California there is a season of wildflowers which many to got great length to view and be among.
As fall came here in Santa Fe, the bowl of the ski basin began to turn bright yellow.  This might leave one to believe there was a field of wildflowers growing there.  However, there is a sense of scale that is off and taking a bike ride up Artist Road and Hyde Park Road into the ski basin it becomes apparent that the yellow mass seen to the north east of Santa Fe is really a large grove of Aspen trees.


The video pretty much explains it all...