Author: Jim
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Train of Wrecks
Trinidad, Colorado. February 2025.
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Huntsville Train Depot
We just returned from ten weeks in Alabama where my wife was on a temporary assignment for work. As you would expect, I used this as an opportunity to photograph some new places, which has given me a nice backlog of images to share. I’ll have a plenty of (green!) landscapes going forward, but I’ll…
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Devil’s Stairsteps
Highway of Legends, Colorado. February 2025.
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Cokedale
Heading west from Trinidad, Colorado, you can drive an 82-mile half-circle on what is known as the “Highway of Legends.” Early along this route we passed the vast coke oven ruins at Cokedale, above, which was a bizarre and unexpected feature. These are the remains of 350 ovens, arranged on both sides of two nested…
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East from Trinidad
As part of our quest to explore as many roads as possible in Colorado, my wife and I spent a day on a long drive—I think is was about a 400-mile loop—that took us east across the bottom of Colorado to within about three miles of the Kansas border, followed by a return through the…
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Cross Breaks
Springfield, Colorado. February 2025.
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Trojan Cleaners
Trinidad, Colorado. February 2025.
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Traipsing in Trinidad
In addition to exploring what I could of the defunct Holy Trinity School in Trinidad, Colorado, I wandered around in and near the downtown area looking for visually interesting things. The vertical lamppost contrasts nicely with the horizontal brickwork in the image above. The pattern really stands out because of the angle of the harsh…
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Past Images of the Week
Images that appeared at the top of the home page in weeks past.
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Holy Trinity School 1870-2004
Since we moved to Colorado a little over two years ago, Susan and I have been working to explore the state that we now call home. Some of our explorations are just day trips, but we also take long weekends to get a little further afield. On this blog, I have tended to prioritize the…