Balloons take to the skies of northern Colorado
The town of Erie’s balloon festival is normally in May but this year all of the rain we had turned the field into a muddy mess so it was postponed…
“What? Do I have something stuck in my teeth?”
Not exactly the regal portrait of this big boy he probably wishes had been taken. Ha! The bucks are bulging up and their antlers are getting bigger by the day…
Fox’s yawn shows off its mouthful of teeth
A fun one for Fox Friday. Little Red Riding Hood told the wolf, “My, what big teeth you have!” While that member of the canine family was undoubtedly much bigger…
Male broad-tailed hummingbird overhead
Kind of a fun, different angle of one of these little, fast movers taken a couple of days ago in Gunnison National Forest. We had a fantastic time camping in…
Snowpack lingers into summer in the Colorado high country
A pretty scene taken on the way up Mount Evans over the 4th of July weekend. The sun was just getting high enough to illuminate the landscape on a chilly,…
Burrowing owl keeps watch from a fence post
With four little ones now regularly coming out of the nest, the parents are busier than ever. Certainly a lot of time is spent hunting and bringing food back to…