Weeks 10-12--18-12 thru 11-9--15-13 - Western Colorado & Utah

Week 10-12 through 10-18-13: 

 Marble, CO

 New Castle, CO - Kathryn Senor Elementary School

Mt. Sopris

 Snowmass Village, CO

 SE Utah

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Week 10-19 through 10-25-13: 

 Rifle Falls Fish Hatchery

 One of many heated driveways in Snowmass, CO - just starting to thaw ice (upper left)

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Week 10-26 through 11-1-13: 

Temple Mountain Rd, Utah

Little Wild Horse Canyon, UT

Goblin Valley State Park, UT

 Coal Mine Rd, UT

 Only remaining building along Coal Mine Rd, a rare 2 story building

 Coal Mine Rd, UT

 Happy Halloween!

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Week 11-2 through 11-8-13: Moab, UT area

 The Mighty Colorado River

 A successful 400' climb at Fisher Towers in UT, up The Corkscrew of Ancient Arts tower

Back home in New Castle, CO

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Week 11-9 through 11-15-13:

 Arches National Park, UT

 A prickly pear turns with the freeze

 A successful hunt, to some's chagrin

 A coyote stalks a rabbit in Aspen, CO

Sun sets over Glenwood Springs, CO with Mt Sopris in the distance, 40 miles away

Weeks 9-28--10-4-13 thru 10-5--11-13 - Back from the Dead!

Back from the dead! 

After dropping my camera into a lethal puddle back in February, then buying a new one, I have spent months playing catch-up to no avail. So I'm finally just resuming. I still have hopes of adding photos from the last 8 months. Western Colorado has proven beautiful in every month. 

Week 9-28 thru 10-4-13 - Western Colorado:

 The first frost - beautifully killing my garden

 Natural ice crystal patterns on the roof of my car

The Leadville, CO mining train tour

South Asian tourists enjoying snow for the first time on Independence Pass

 Infamous aspens

 The town of Aspen seen from Red Mountain Rd.

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Week 10-5 thru 10-11-13 - Western Colorado:

 Redstone Art Gallery

Colorado National Monument - govt shutdown can't keep us out!

 Marble, CO - source of all the marble used in the Lincoln Memorial in DC

 Edwards, CO

Cytospora fungal canker - common killer of aspens and birches in CO

Colorado National Monument

Weeks 11-17--23-12 thru 1-12--18-13 - 2 months of travel!

A very happy new year! My apologies for the lapse in posting... you will see, there have been quite a few planes, trains and automobiles in the meantime. Enjoy!

Week 11-17 thru 11-23-12 - Broken down in Limon, CO:

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Week 11-24 thru 11-30-12 - Kansas City MO, Iowa, Wisconsin:

The Ferry Dock at Northport, WI

Sturgeon Bay

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Week 12-1 thru 12-7-12 - Washington Island, WI:

Superdominants

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Week 12-8 thru 12-14-12 - Washington Island, WI:

Very odd... the toupee on this elk skull I found in the woods of Montana over a year ago started to bleed out this Fall. Perhaps due to higher humidity at its new home in Wisconsin?

Facing Rock Island, WI

Lake Michigan is so low this winter that a rocky shoal now extends all the way to Rock Island from Washington Island - wide enough to walk and drive over.

Incredible geo- and phototropism

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Week 12-15 thru 12-21-12 - Washington Island, WI:

 Remnants of an old boat dock, destroyed by the winter waves of Lake Michigan

 Norse Horse Park on the Island

The Old Cheese Factory

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Week 12-22 thru 12-28-12 - Chicago IL, Albany NY, and Philadelphia PA:

Chicago, IL

Valley Falls, NY

Home for the Holidays

Philadelphia skyline

At 30th Street Station in Philadelphia

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Week 12-29 thru 1-4-13 - Philadelphia PA, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Kentucky, Missouri:

 Hot Pot restaurant in Chinatown in Boston

 Fresh snowfall in Franklin, MA

 New Haven, CT

 Louisville, KY

open skies of Missouri

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Week 1-5--1-11-13 - Kansas and back to the Rockies in CO:

Past and Present

First glimpse of the Rockies - from about 100mi away

 The Hogback Range in New Castle, CO

A fresh snow storm blows in over the Mamms south of Rifle, CO

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Week 1-12 thru 1-18-13 - Colorado:

 Roan Plateau

 Rifle Falls State Fish Hatchery

Baby fish jump into a man made waterfall in their hatchery