03/29/26

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image is of Burlington Route locomotive 5629 at the Colorado Railroad Museum.  This locomotive was built in 1940 in Burlington Iowa and is a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement which means it was built for speed.  It began it's career running freight from Chicago to Denver and then between Lincoln Nebraska and Denver.  In 1961 in was converted to oil and was stored in Lincoln where it's boiler was used for heat during a renovation of the Lincoln train station.  On August 30, 1963 it was presented to the Colorado Railroad Museum by the CB&Q Vice President JJ Alms.  The move was rather complicated due to the size of the locomotive and more can be read about it HERE if interested.  

03/28/26

 We have cooled down for a couple days but I felt like showing this photo today because it's my day.  😉  This image is different than my usual snowflake image as this one was taken by my phone!  The quality of photos from a phone has really gotten pretty amazing in certain circumstances.  This is just a single image and not focus stacked like my others.

03/27/26

 It's Friday, TGIF!  My Wild Plum was beginning to bloom this past weekend.  In the heat we had it is probably done already, I have not had time to go check it this week.  I hope it is still blooming, they smell so good.  I could have used this image for Wildflower Wednesday as well but the bokeh was so good in it I had to share it for today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!

03/26/26

 It's a double digit day!  It feels like summer out too, we are ridiculously hot yesterday and today as I write this, 98 F in March!  Ugh, I hate to think what summer will be like for real.  Anyway, I felt like looking at a butterfly on Cosmos, this is a Buckeye.

03/25/26

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is Purple Poppy Mallow.  It usually blooms April through August.  It can look much more purple.  It has a deep taproot that makes it very drought hardy.

03/24/26

 So this was another opportunity for a close up photo that I had of a hawk where I was not hurrying as much and it turned out much better than one I shared recently.  This is a Red Tail Hawk which are more common to see for me.  It was sitting in the Walnut tree in my backyard.  It was so close I kept cutting off part of it's tail so had to adjust my Zoom lens to get it all in.

03/23/26

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  My Amaryllis is blooming!  I have somewhere between 15 to 20 plants and have about 10 flower stalks this year which is the most ever.  They don't seem to rebloom every year. 6 of the plants are just babies off the adult plant so it will be a while yet before they are large enough to bloom.  I planted these after Christmas and this first one bloomed the first week of March.