• landscape,  natural areas,  snow,  trees,  window

    Happy Mother’s Day!

    May 10, 2015
    Snow Covered Trail and a favorite Cottonwood tree
    Snow Covered Trail and a favorite Cottonwood tree

    It has been raining for the past several days. Thankfully it has been a gentle and refreshing rain and much needed moisture. We have seen severe weather conditions over the past few days. There have been tornado warnings, hail warnings, flash flood warnings, and winter weather warnings. Temperatures started to drop down to freezing yesterday afternoon. As it dropped the rain changed to snow, heavy wet snow. My understanding is some areas of Colorado had as much as 6 inches of snow.

    Fort Collins is reporting over 2.5 inches of moisture the past 3 days. The 1 to 3 inches of snow they predicted for last night fizzled out. We only received a dusting of snow as you can see in the above image taken this morning of a favorite cottonwood along the Fisher Nature Trail. The image below was taken yesterday afternoon from my bedroom window during some heavier rain.

    Gentle Rain
    Gentle Rain

    And, Happy Mother’s Day to all!

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  • architecture,  leaves,  Plants,  window

    Cold Morning

    November 5, 2014
    Frosty Leaves
    Frosty Leaves

    Yesterday morning we awoke to our first heavy frost and temperatures in the mid twenties. I did not want to get out of bed, so I didn’t. Felt good! After a late breakfast I took the bus to campus then walked to a coffeehouse called Mugs. From there I headed to Old Town. With camera around my neck I dis some obvious people waatching. Again, the mundane stuff to some people caught my eye such as the shadows cast by a tree on a window, frost covered leaves at the bus stop and a backlit leave on a firtree. Grabbed a sandwich then a bus ride back home.

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  • architecture,  window

    October 24, 2014
    Morning Sun and Shadows
    Morning Sun and Shadows

    “Everyone has his or her own way of learning things.
    His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his.
    But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

    Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
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  • architecture,  Documentary/Street,  window

    Early Morning Light

    September 9, 2014

    The alley in Old Town Fort Collins
    The alley in Old Town Fort Collins

    “The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.” -Ernst Haas

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