Photo Friday: Battleship Down
Today’s photo comes from Red Rock’s National Park. To my eye, it looked like a battleship sinking. What do you think?...
Photo Friday: Burning Skies
On the way back from a Pikes Peak trip, the sunset was mind blowing. You had dark storm clouds overhead but the sun heading behind the mountains, creating this vision of a sky burning brightly as if on fire. This photo was taken with my point...
Photo Friday: The Pony Express
Imagine a time when, to get a simple letter from one side of the country to the other, meant using a series of horse riders in a two thousand mile relay race. In a nutshell, that was The Pony Express. Before the Express, your letter took its own...
Photo Friday: Royal Gorge
My trip to Royal Gorge, Colorado, marks the only time that I can remember being affected by height. Royal Gorge is essentially a gorge with this massive bridge crossing it: I’ve never really had a problem with heights before. Maybe it was...
Photo Friday: Random Waterfall
Pike’s Peak National Park – Random Waterfall: When the snow melts, you get a lot of these cropping up. This one was cool because you could easily get to it. We even drank the water. 🙂...
Photo Friday: Whirled Peas
In Estes Park, Colorado, there is a river walk that includes a tunnel. The entrance and exit of this tunnel are lined with ceramic tiles decorated by local school children. This one is particularly amusing: As you can see, the kid in the middle...
Photo Friday: Treebeard?
No, sorry – that’s not Treebeard. What that is, I can’t say. Other than weird. Pucker up? I snapped this photo at a tourist attraction in Manitou Springs, Colorado – the Cliff Dwellings. Cool place. Weird tree. The...
Photo Friday: Undah de Sea
Okay, so, maybe not really under the sea seeing as how this was taken at a lake up in the Rocky Mountains – but with all that seaweed, how could I not go there? I did not get wet trying to take this photo. Okay, I did not get much wet...
Photo Friday – Lookout Mountain
One of my favorite shots is the one below. Taken from Lookout Mountain while facing West, I have a lot of different versions of this shot in my iPhoto, but this is the latest, taken on October 19th, 2011 around 1 pm. Lookout Mountain was one of...
Photo Tuesday-Rattlesnakes
The way we read things isn’t always the way an author intended. Take, for example, this sign from Red Rocks Park, elevation 6,400 ft. It makes me wonder – when is the rattlesnakes area open…?...
Photo Tuesday-Frozen Falls
Idaho Springs Colorado is a little town nestled in the Clear Creek Vally about thirty miles West of Denver on I70. At an elevation of 7, 526 feet, it can get pretty cold there in the winter (I went white water rafting there a couple summers...
Photo Tuesday-Pride Rock
Last weekend, I had the chance to hang out with Karen & Curtis, who were in town for Thanksgiving. Karen is Karen Burnham of SF Signal, Spiral Galaxy & Locus fame. She’s been coming on the SF Signal podcast since the beginning...