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Having endured 130 years of Colorado weather, another winter storm descends upon the historic Meining Barn in Larimer County, Colorado.
A pasque flower blooms at 10,300'/ 3100 m near Brainard Lake in the Front Range of the southern Rockies. Its lowland cousins were flowering 7 weeks ago. The populations differ greatly in height, a common adaptation to mountain weather. The high elevation populations are shorter, lowering exposure to high winds and keeping the flower closer to the warmer soil surface.
Flushing out pheasant in the corn fields in Colorado.
This was a first for me, a melanistic mutant pheasant. I have heard and seen the Imperial Pheasant at zoos but, not this variety. They are rare and unique. BTW I photograph game birds and I'm not a hunter.
High on the Continental Divide, separating waters which flow to the Atlantic Ocean (to the left) and the Pacific drainage (to the right), looking towards Navajo Peak (knob toward the left, 13409 ft / 4087 m), Apache Peak (13441 ft / 4097 m), and Mount George (12691 ft / 3868 m) from near the summit of Shoshoni Peak (12967 ft / 3952 m). This small plateau is a residual portion of a much larger uplift plateau that occurred starting in the Laramide mountain building period 70 million years ago. The uplifted plateau has been eroded by repeated glacial-interglacial cycles, which gouged deep valleys into this plateau- note the very steep drops on either side of the divide here. Remnants of the ancient high plateau occur on summit ridges in a few places of the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains.
In the distance are the Gore and Williams Fork Ranges.
Stitch of 6 vertical shots.
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