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Photo Gallery: Colorado, Sept 2008

October 12, 2008

Life in Colorado’s Front Range. I haven’t lost my love of photographing flowers. Click on any captioned photo below to read a bit of explanation/description.

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Rocky Mountain National Park Gallery

August 6, 2008

This is the full gallery from the day Tin Tin and I spent in Rocky Mountain National Park last year. Click on a thumbnail below to see a larger version; use your browser’s back button to return to this page.

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Owlet Update

May 6, 2008

We now know that there are four owlets this year. I’m told this is well beyond the two-baby norm for Great Horned Owls, but the Broomfield owl pair are experienced parents who also have a good food source nearby: a colony of prairie dogs out at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitain Airport. The two above are [...]

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We Got Some Wild, Wild Life

May 6, 2008

Owls have been nesting on the Broomfield campus for some time, and every year (so I’m told) they have babies. A few days ago, as I was heading for the cafeteria, someone pointed out this guy sitting on a windowsill in the courtyard: Today he/she, or a sibling, was down near the cafeteria: I guess [...]

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The Perfect Snow

April 7, 2008

Yesterday we had the perfect snow: it fell very prettily for hours, coating everything in white – except the roads. But I didn’t know it wouldn’t stick to the roads, so I went home early (I don’t know very well how to drive in snow yet, and try to avoid it) and participated in a [...]

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Adventures in Colorado and New Mexico

August 26, 2007

luggage gargoyle at Denver International Airport Aug 13, Monday – Though still tired and sore from our strenuous hike the day before, I went to the Sun gym to do the physical part of my fitness assessment. Even more tired after that! Aug 17, Friday – Took a 6 pm flight from Denver to Albuquerque, where [...]

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The Silent Screams of Dying Trees

August 17, 2007

Last Sunday Tin Tin and I went to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a beautiful drive from Boulder, through Estes Park (which is a town, not a park) and on up – and up, and up. At its highest point, the Trail Ridge Road is something over 12,000 feet in altitude (and, obviously, closed by snow [...]

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