11/18/16

I have a day off today so posting early.  :-)  Autumn has set in today, dreary, cold and windy, maybe it's more like winter.  My image today is from a while back and a visit to Mount Evans in Colorado.  It was very cold and extremely windy while I was up there due to the elevation.  This Mountain Goat that I was able to get a good image of had a nice wool coat to protect it, I just had a wind breaker.  I was happy to be able to see Mountain Goats up close and get some good images of them.

3/1/16

Well, it's the first day of March and more normal weather now so is this "in like a lion or lamb"?  :-)  Anyway, my image today goes back to my trip to Mount Evans in Colorado and the Bristle-cone Pine Forest located there.  These cool, very old trees have such neat twisting shapes with lines of color in them.  They are quite beautiful and interesting to photograph.  They are very determined as well because they only grow at very high altitudes, almost at the tree line on mountainsides.

4/13/15

I decided to share something other than the usual today so this image goes back to my trip last summer to Colorado and Mount Evans.  Mount Evens claims to have the highest paved road in North America and the top is at 14, 240 feet.  This image was taken from several hundred feet higher than that because you can walk to the summit.  The view from there was quite spectacular but it was incredibly windy and very cold, only about 32 when it had been 80 degrees at the base of the mount.  This view looks down on Summit Lake which is a 5 mile drive down from the top.