01/03/26

 I was able to end the year with a bike ride.  The weather has been so crazy, one day snow, the next it's in the high 50s F.  Another oddity, the elk was back in her pasture.  I wish I knew the story behind her being there.  The fences are not high enough to keep her in and how she ended up there in the first place.  A while back she was out across the road in a field and I had been worried that possibly a pack of coyotes would take her out or something but there she was, safe and sound.  

 

10/09/25

 This is an image of the Elk that was in a pasture with some horses for several months.  Recently, it was spotted outside the pasture, which is where it was when I took this photo.  It's a female and I wish I knew what the back story was on it and why it was in their pasture.  Anyway, Elk can jump pretty high so it is not surprising that it could get out but it was surprising that it hung around so long.  It had left their land and was in a nearby field not long after this so may have left totally by now.  We do have other Elk in the area as there is a herd that is on Ft Riley and it has been moving around lately.

08/03/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image is a companion to Thursday's.  As we rounded a curve on the Cumbres & Toltec Railway ride in the scrub area of Colorado near Antonito, the engineer was blowing the whistle quite a lot.  You can see the steam coming from it in the photo.  The cause was this Elk that was standing on or right near the tracks and I was able to get a photo of the action.  The white object to the right is a mile marker and we were at mile 291 when this occurred.  The train does not go that far, that is from original Rio Grande designations.  I am not sure where the starting point is.  Very early in the ride a similar thing happened with cows but I did not get a photo.  😊

07/31/25

 It's the last day of July already, wow the summer is going by quickly.  Sigh.  We are finally out of our heat wave for the moment at least.  While I was riding the Cumbres & Toltec Railway a month ago already, I was able to see and capture several varieties of wildlife including Elk.  This is one that had been standing on the tracks in front of our train in the scrub area outside Antonito Colorado.  Check back on Sunday to see a companion photo.  😁

05/15/25

 So I was able to get a bit better photo of the Elk that seems to be a new resident with a ranch down the way from me that has a couple horses.  It was still a fair distance away but I had my actual camera with me for a capture.  It appears to be a female.  

04/03/25

 I was bike riding this past weekend and saw that in a pasture that has some horses I regularly see, this was also there.  It's an Elk.  I was quite surprised and only had my phone with me because the battery for my camera was dead.  It was very interesting to see it in with the horses, not sure why they have an Elk.

1/5/16

Well, turned into a nice day.  I was reminded that January and February are usually dreary so I should expect it to be that way.  I hate it though, especial right after the holidays and the decorations are down, especially the lights.  Sigh.  So blah.
Anyway, dreaming of warmer days and continuing on with my Nature Challenge.  I did not see a time limit for when photos could be taken and I had this shot I wanted to use one day ready to go from the archives.  This is a beautiful Elk I was able to see and photograph during our trip to Yellowstone.  It was just slowly walking along and eating new growth in this previously burned out part of the park.  It was just wonderful with it's big tack of antlers.  I felt very privileged to be able to see it and photograph it.