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I've been MIA lately on Flickr. Been soooooo busy! I did take some time out last week to go shoot the red barn after our snow storm the hit the Denver area. I've been up to this location several times at sunrise but always got skunked on the sky lighting up. Got lucky this morning. was treated to a beautiful pink sky!
Happy Sunday and hope everyone has a great week!
With a green GP50 on the point, the Buck local climbs the grade of Burkes Hill outside Louisville. Visible above the train is the front range and various peaks of the Rocky Mountains.
Colorado is a high altitude state encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains with an average elevation of 6,800 ft (2070 m). There are about 55 mountains which exceed 14,000 ft (4270 m). The air is usually pure and clear but severe drought conditions have resulted in many forest fires in Colorado and the western United States.
talk about being in the right place / right time - was great when this skein of canada geese started circling around and flew right thru my comp - life is good - not to mention a waning moon - and some anti-crepuscular rays
A few inches of snow in this late spring snowstorm in Boulder. A fair number of branches were taken out given everything has leafed out.
American Robins at the Bird Bath, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado. The morning began @ ~16F. The ice in the bird bath was frozen solid with long icicles going down from it. The robins first gathered and pecked at the ice. Then the sun worked its wonders to melt the ice by early afternoon. The robins were thirsty and this event became a social gathering.
Merry Christmas!
365: The 2015 Edition (183/365)
We'd just had a drenching rain and then the sun came out. This gem glistened in the sunshine, calling me to come see it!
okay, i stink at landscapes, but just thought i'd give y'all a glimpse of something i get to enjoy every day!
this was taken out the car window at a stop light.
SD75I CN 5647 leads the X KALCOK9 18A, a grain empty from Kalama, Washington, to Coolidge, Kansas, through Palmer Lake on a nice Spring day.
My camera settings were at the "grainy" limits (higher ISO) when I took this photo minutes after sunset. I mainly wanted to show the higher level clouds with a series of wave formations (a.k.a. Kelvin-Helmholtz [fluctus]). Pilots beware! Strong winds and much snow were followed by these wave clouds above the Rockies. This turbulent weather quickly moved Eastward impacting the Great Plains and Midwest with cold, windy, snowy extremes, too. More cold will remain for the days ahead.
Commemorating one of the first trained Euro-American naturalists to visit the area, James Peak is bathed in the first warm rays of light with a coat of new snow. Edwin James accompanied the Stephen Long expedition to the southern Rockies in 1820 as the company's botanist, geologist, and physician. He is credited with the first recorded ascents of Pikes Peak and James Peak, although it is fairly certain they had been climbed by Native Americans prior to this time. James also made extensive collections during the expedition, including some of the first plants from the alpine zone above treeline, and several taxa bear his name.
Just peaking up to the right of James Peak's rounded summit is Parry Peak, also named for another 19th century botanist, Charles Parry, who described many species of Rocky Mountain plants, and whose name is also attached to many taxa (e.g. Parry primrose, Primula parryi).
The slopes of Eldora ski area are visible on the right, as are fire scars from the Cold Springs burn of 2016 on the top of one of the ridges between the lens and the summit of James Peak.