• architecture,  bicycles,  Cityscapes/Urban,  lifestyles,  snow,  sunrises,  winter scenes

    It’s Cold This Morning

    February 20, 2018
    Bicyclists on Campus
    Bicyclists on Campus

    We are cold this morning, -6 at 6:49 am. The sun is shining and we have clear blue skies. I took this image of the bicyclists at about 7:30 as I walked into the Lory Student Center on campus. I find it amazing the courage they have to ride in the cold, snow and icy conditions. Not me! Young people in Colorado don’t seem to mind the cold but I do. That, or I’m a bit wiser. 🙂

    Art from tire tracks in my parking lot
    Art from tire tracks in my parking lot

    “I didn’t go to kindergarten, so I missed ‘show and tell’ when I was young. I’m making up for it now! I look for essence of the subject and try to show it in a different way, whether it’s Antarctica or a monarch butterfly…” – George Lepp

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  • bicycles,  Documentary/Street,  fog,  lifestyles,  People/Portraits,  snow,  Transportation,  trees,  winter scenes

    November 12, 2017

    Bicyclist on a cold morning near campus
    Bicyclist on a cold morning near campus

    Walked to a coffeehouse last week to meet a friend for a cup of coffee and their breakfast enchiladas. 🙂 The temperature was somewhere between 25 and 30 degrees  (F). I am still surprised how many people in Fort Collins ride bicycles in all sorts of weather. They just gear up for whatever nature brings on. I’m actually envious of their commitment to riding. 

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  • bicycles,  Cityscapes/Urban,  Transportation,  Travel,  winter scenes

    Drifting and Blowing

    February 5, 2016

    Blowing Drifting Snow
    Blowing Drifting Snow

    As I mentioned I was off line for a few days as I traveled with my sister to the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area for a funeral. We knew there would a storm moving through Colorado on Monday but felt it would be okay to travel.  We headed home on Tuesday morning thinking we would be just fine. As you can see we discovered some very high winds and blowing, drifting snow once we entered into the southeast corner of Colorado. These conditions lasted for about a hundred miles then we had much better roads and sunny weather to travel in. We just followed two semi trucks, figuring they knew what was ahead. The Fort Collins area receive 12 inches of snow. And, of course along with that comes the colder temperatures.

    Bicycling in the Cold
    Bicycling in the Cold

    Yesterday morning on my walk to coffee I noticed this man riding his bicycle. That’s not anything unusual especially in a college town. What was unusual is the temperature was 1 degree. I’m layered and shivering while he pedals away. I prefer warmer riding weather. Different strokes for different folks. Stay warm.

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