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at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs:
"Located in narrow Queen’s Canyon just north of the geological formation known as the Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie is the estate of General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) and the city of Colorado Springs. What began as a relatively modest clapboard home in 1871 had evolved into the sixty-five room "castle” by 1906, with multiple improvements in between.
Both Frederick J. Sterner and Thomas MacLaren, each a prominent architect in Colorado, had a hand in the evolving design of the nearly 50-acre complex. In addition to the Tudor Revivial main house, the district includes a gatekeeper’s house, schoolhouse, large carriage house, two power-generating plants, gardener’s house, dairy, granary, and many surviving historic landscape features, such as bridges and a rose garden. First listed in the National Register in 1975, the historic district was expanded in 2016 to encompass additional buildings commissioned by Palmer to complete his self-sufficient estate." History Colorado
My disappointment at the lack of a colorful sunset was compensated by the unusual clouds rolling over James Peak. The standing dead trees were killed in the Four Mile fire of 2010, which nearly swept through the lovely quaint town of Gold Hill just below the hill in the foreground.
The buds have been delayed in opening this year by about three weeks. And even as they began to open on April 12, temperatures plummeted and snow fell once again on April 13.
Rime ice covers the needles of pines and aspen stems following a freezing fog event. In the valleys low clouds sweep up the canyons following overnight passage of a cold front.
During a clear afternoon on Colorado’s Front Range, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train heads downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on July 28, 2001.
This portion of the Rocky Mountains is called the Front Range--the steep rise from 5,500 feet on the Great Plains to the 13,000 and 14,000 foot peaks along the Continental Divide in just 20 miles. The peaks to the left are Bear Peak and Green Mountain (both about 8,300 ft); the Flatirons associated with Boulder are on Green Mountain. The tall peak in the distance is Longs Peak, which reaches above 14,000 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park. The Great Plains extend from Texas to Alberta and from the Front Range in Colorado to (almost) the Mississippi River.
The sun setting over the Front Range Mountains and the opem range area near Cherryvale Road in Boulder, Colorado
- Sony A7RIII
- Sigma 24mm-70mm Art
- Tiffen Circular Polarizer
- Really Right Stuff Tripod & Ballhead
Quaking aspen displayed green yellow, gold and orange yesterday at higher elevations in the Front Range. It was a pleasure to walk through such a forest.
The sun is shining through the clouds on this rather cloudy morning onto Horsetooth rock in Fort Collins Colorado.
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Compositionally Challenged Week 42 - Triangles
There were so many sailboats on the lake today, this is just a few of them. When we got home I looked online and discovered that a local sailing club was hosting the Colorado Governors Cup Regatta. It was perfect weather for sailing, and so cool to see them. : )
I was seated on a flat stone path and this dove arrived. I expected it would fly away. Rather, it came even closer and perched on this rock and just looked at me for a few minutes. Had I leaned forward, it would have been within arm's length. Then it chose to fly away and likely bed down for the approaching night. Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado, Dusk.