Tag: Colorado
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Abandoned in Colorado
I mentioned last week that I was going to show off some of the random gems that you can find just driving around the San Luis Valley. One of the first I found was the wonderful abandoned house above. At the time we were driving towards the Great Sand Dunes, which start just off the…
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San Luis Valley
Alamosa, Colorado, sits in the middle of the vast 8,000-square-mile San Luis Valley. The valley floor is at an elevation of over 7,500′ and is surrounded by mountain ranges that feature 14,000′ peaks. The valley is primarily agricultural—lots of ranching and farming—and there is a fair amount of open space, as is pretty clear in…
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Southern Colorado Gold
My wife and I are on a mission to see the entire state of Colorado. This isn’t happening at a breakneck pace, mind you, but we are making steady progress. Whenever we drive somewhere new we color in the roads with a pink highlighter on our rather beat-up paper Colorado map. At this point, there…
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LoHi
We have lived in the Denver area for less than two years and there are many areas that are entirely unknown to us, so we make an effort to go to places just because we have never been there. It’s almost like travel, but closer. Our wedding anniversary was on a Sunday in August and…
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It Fell Over Boulder Falls
A long-time friend, Erik, visited from Massachusetts last weekend. Over the years, we have been on a number of notable photographic adventures, including exploring Ragged Top in the Ironwood Forest National Monument northwest of Tucson. (That’s a very old post, so I apologize for it’s different look and feel; beautifying the prehistoric posts on this…
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Paint Mine Proboscides
Just over a week ago a clickbait video appeared on my YouTube feed touting a “Hidden Gem Near Denver!” That hidden gem is Paint Mines Interpretive Park, a county park in El Paso County, Colorado. If online sources are to be believed, the park is almost 25 years old, but the park seems new and…
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Peak of Spring
Back in May a long-time friend came to visit and he suggested driving to the top of Pikes Peak. From my house, it’s about an hour to get down to Colorado Springs and about another hour to get to the top of the mountain. The image above gives an idea of what the road is…
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Pink over Pawnee
Last weekend I was rather dismayed when I saw a picture of saguaros silhouetted against a magenta aurora sky; after 29 years of living in an auroraless Arizona, I had some serious image envy. Not only that, but I hadn’t made any effort to go look for the aurora in Colorado, where it would have…
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Cliffs and Monoliths
About a year after our trip to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, we drove through western Colorado after dropping our daughter off at the University of Wyoming for her freshman year. One of places we explored was Colorado National Monument next to Grand Junction, Colorado. The pictures above and below give a good indication…
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Facing the Abyss
Recently a friend asked about things to photograph in western Colorado this coming June. I decided that the easiest thing to do was write a couple blogs on the area, although I have to reach pretty far back in the archives to do so. This week we are going back to October 2016, although most…