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It’s very rare that I’m down along the front range close to sunset, but last week I was traveling home from a late afternoon doctor’s appointment and just happened to have my camera with me. It had been stormy on and off all day, but right before sunset, the clouds parted just enough to capture this beautiful scene of Longs Peak and Mt Meeker from McCall Lake. I always joke with family and friends when they come out to visit that my house sits right in the middle of this scene where the mountains meet the trees. Have a great evening!!!
This sunset really speaks of the beauty I get to experience everyday living near the Laramie Foothills. We live on such an amazingly beautiful planet!
a red fox pup explores the world adjacent to its den in Weld County, Colorado
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The Laramie Foothills-Laramie Mountain Range are located in north central Colorado and south central Wyoming. Photographed near the village of Livermore, Colorado U.S.A.
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Equipment used: Sony SLT-A58 with Sony AF DT 18-70mm lens on tripod.
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365: The 2015 Edition (153/365)
The moon rose just after sunset so the sky wasn't too dark yet. It peeked out from behind one of the rocky peaks to our east, a beautiful sight.
Species: Colaptes auratus
Subspecies: c.a. cafer
Order: PICIFORMES
Family: PICIDAE
Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado. Spring will soon be here. This flicker was looking for food and its favorite larvae, beetles, and other insects should then be abundant once again. I love its black polka-dot-on-white feathers (one dot per feather) and its black-scalloped plumage. Such masterful artistry!
Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado, Sunset
This buck passes through our back area pretty routinely. It appears to have been the dominant buck in our small local herd in recent years. Now it is sporting an impressive, actively-growing velvety rack yet again.
Two years ago, it dropped one of its antlers near our back door. A "gift!" It weighed 3.5 lbs (1.58 kg).
So, I imagine it will be carrying a pair of antlers that will weigh ~7.0 lbs (~3.18 kg). again. That will be just in time for rut beginning in September.
366: The 2016 Edition (22/366)
In retrospect, Shyla had been trying to tell me that something was behind me for a couple of minutes. She finally truly got my attention by barging directly into me as I took her photo. Then, as I brushed myself off, she stared behind me. When I looked, I saw what's in the next photo - three moose very close to us!
366: The 2016 Edition (39/366)
DDC "Fairy Tale"
I was working on "out of sight" stays with Shyla by having her do a "down stay" behind a big boulder. She sneaked over and peeked at me, which made me laugh out loud! The "fairy tale" is that, normally, this formerly extremely fearful dog can do out-of-sight stays! If you had told me that when I first met her, I would not have believed it.
BNSF’s westbound manifest freight that operates on the Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is westbound on the approach to Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on April 5, 1999. Leading the colorful consist is Burlington Northern No. 1991, a specially-painted red, white and blue “Pulling for Freedom” EMD SD60M decked out to honor our troops in Desert Storm. By 1999 when this photo was made, the paint was getting a bit tattered, and the locomotive was repainted and renumbered into BNSF “Heritage II” No. 9299 less than a year later. Trailing is a former Santa Fe GE U36C, rebuilt into a SF30C and was part of the LRC (Livingston Rebuild Center) lease fleet that saw use on BNSF, and a pair of SD40-2s in BNSF Heritage I and BN liveries.
Last sunlight on the Front Range of the Santa Catalina Mountains. From my roof in midtown Tucson looking NE. What a grand place to live! The rocky peak left of center is Window Peak. Civilization lapping up against the slopes, which are protected from further encroachment by being a National Forest. The shadows change dramatically as winter changes to spring and summer, no longer approaching at an angle that emphasizes the canyons, since the sun moves further north.
DDC "Free"
I feel so lucky to live someplace where Shyla can be "free" of a leash almost all the time. It took a lot of training to make that possible but it was worth it.
It was -11°F and snowing when Shyla and I started our snowbike ride. Shyla's face, including her eye lashes, quickly grew frost all over it!
DDC "Useful"
I have figured out some tricks to get Shyla to look more engaged while I photograph her, which I'm sure can be boring for her. One trick is that I toss her a treat for every shutter click. In this one, she'd heard the shutter click and was wide-eyed waiting for the treat toss!
Mule Deer Buck with Antlers in Velvet, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado, Summer, Dusk.
This buck passes through our back area pretty routinely. It appears to have been the dominant buck in our small local herd in recent years. Now it is sporting an impressive, actively-growing velvety rack yet again.
Two years ago, it dropped one of its antlers near our back door. A "gift!" It weighed 3.5 lbs (1.58 kg).
So, I imagine it will be carrying a pair of antlers that will weigh ~7.0 lbs (~3.18 kg). again. That will be just in time for rut beginning in September.