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Planting the plains

Recently, I added a shot of a grasslands corral where they tried raising stock out in northeast Colorado. Here is a recent capture from this year that has been rattling around and that I needed to retouch if I can invent ways to do so on Windows -10. Odds? 10 keeps bashing me at every turn.

 

I traveled out west around Hygiene and onto Crane Hollow Road, a favorite winding back road that drops into the valley where the world's largest cottonwood (whoopy-de-doo) recently died and found a recently plowed field atop the bluff that's ready to plant irrigated corn for alcohol I suppose. As if we needed more chemical fuel to burn as CO2. At least Trump is hedging his environmental beliefs to the climate conference. He makes up for it by lying about everything else.

 

Both Longmont and Hygiene had early river fords for travelers. Longmont was more convenient and the Hygiene ford was originally at a settlement named Pella. The rebuilt BoCo park is named Pella Crossing. This pictured land is just west on the southern bank of the river but is still watered by irrigation ditches sourced from well west on the St. Vrain near Lyons.

 

Today, Colorado is again locked into a new growth spurt to the dismay of sensibilities of many after legalizing the sale of dope. How many of the newcomers are dope heads and are totally ready for our climate and snow? They come to smoke and camp, broken, on the streets. We don't need them even because of Colorado's natural and geographical draws. Perhaps with the final advent of real winter, they'll turn around and go home with hidden dope in their luggage. This February has been special but I never met a February I like very well. March could be a turn around. Tomorrow could bring a turnaround. I gotta go and explore.

 

I started out with my camera a few times recently but instead ended up trying to bring the new Windows 10 up to speed on my new computer, gaggggg. Why does MS want everything dumbed further down while including extra keystrokes? Until I caught up, I was still using a thumb drive and the sneaker net to post new photos. I pretty much have photo editing on my new machine now.

 

 

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Uploaded on February 28, 2020
Taken on May 24, 2019