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DDC "Seen better days"
I usually revel in snow but I am really tired of it. It's still snowing now, a couple of weeks later. So, imo, it would have been a better day without that extra foot of snow.
Almost Summer, Thunderheads at Sunset, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado
On “HOPE” - (July 8, 2018)
Thai Wild Boar Soccer Team and Heroic Rescuers:
“Dr. Jerome Groopman, Harvard Medical School professor, has carefully investigated the science of hope. He found that your brain pumps chemicals responsible for the hopeful sensation, which in turn block out pain and accelerate healing. Belief and expectation—the one-two punches of hope—release neurochemicals called endorphins and enkephalins that mimic the effects of morphine.
As a result [Dr. Groopman states], ‘Hope helps us overcome hurdles that we otherwise could not scale, and it moves us forward to a place where healing can occur.’ ‘. . . hope doesn’t directly lead to recovery, . . but it contributes to survival. . . .’ ‘Hope, I have come to believe, is as vital to our lives as the very oxygen that we breathe.’”
- The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood, p. 318 (Trade edition 2010)
Fervent and hopeful prayers for survival of the 12-year-old Thai boys (Wild Boars soccer team), their coach, and all experts with "heroic selflessness and survival in their DNA" involved in the rescue efforts.
Having flown into Denver the night before, my buddy John Boneberg and I headed to Rocky Mountain National Park early the next morning, arriving at Many Parks Curve Overlook by daybreak. While the smoke from distant fires would make for a hazy day in the park, it also made for a most memorable sunrise. "Many" thanks to Bill Bowman for his helpful suggestions in planning our trip.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/5.6, 70mm, 1/125s
Light suddenly finds its way through a slit in the clouds behind me, and ignites the crest of the Continental Divide and the summits of the Indian Peaks Wilderness, from a vantage near Boulder, Colorado.
An impulsive whim on a weekend morning brought me to a vantage I like to frequent through the seasons. On this particular day, the air was cool, the eastern horizon was fairly cloudy, and it seemed very likely that photography would take a back seat to simply scratching the dog and watching the world for a few minutes. But then an unexpected opening appeared, and the light changed dramatically. Dog looked disappointed.
Thanks for looking!
365: The 2015 Edition (219/365)
DDC "Easy" - I teach all my dogs to target specified spots with their front paws and then stay with their paws in place. They are free to do what they want with the rest of their body. In this photo, I took the Duo to a favorite spot and had them pose together. It actually wasn't as "easy" as it looks because a deer walked through that they both stared at (but didn't break their stays!).
The full moon for the month of May is called the Flower Moon by the Algonquin people, and was also known as the Corn Planting Moon (what I'm doing right now in the garden), and the Milk Moon. Here, morning light shows off the contours of the southern Indian Peaks Wilderness as the moon sets behind the Front Range just outside of Gold Hill, Colorado.
This is a stitch of 3 horizontal images. Thanks for your visit and comments!