Storm Receding
As a storm rolls east across the high plains the sharp updrafts and soft downdrafts are texture in the clouds.
Sunset Rays
Sunrays across a spring field filled with flowers. This picture was just as the sunset colors were starting to take over from the warm yellows of the golden hour.
In Bloom
Springtime in Colorado brings a few weeks of green grass and flowers. Cacti bloom before the heat and dryness of summer.
New Growth
New spring leaves are always an amazing shade of green, and it makes for one of my favorite weeks out of the year, as the whole landscape rapidly changes.
Winter Remnant
This was an interesting find over the winter, the dried flower heads of Indian Pipe. These flowers are a strange sight in the summer, the entirety of the plant being a pale white color, and only found in forests. I was rather surprised to find intact flower stalks dried and poking through the snow.
Winter Blues
The cold weather does provide amazing things. This is the result of warm days and freezing nights slowly forming large ice crystals on the surface of puddles, ponds, and rivers.
Glow
This is another winter sunset from the shores of Lake Superior, featuring early winter ice sheets, and wet feet to get to the location this was taken from.
Beach Sunset
Sunsets during the winter take place surprisingly early at northerly latitudes. This was a few months ago at around 4:30 in the afternoon. The cold weather also tends to bring smaller flatter clouds, which gives the distinct cloud layers like this photo shows.
Twilight Overlook
This is a view from a few weeks ago on top of Ely’s Peak MN, looking East after sunset. This location becomes packed some times of year because of the large area that it overlooks, but also offers an old rail tunnel under the cliff, and access to some of the other hiking trails in the area.
Looking Forward
I’m looking forward to all the unique photo opportunities that winter brings over the next months, but I am also already looking forward to the amazing variety of colors that every spring brings, like this pulmonaria, with flowers that vary from bright pink to almost blue.
