The sunrise over Denver was absolutely gorgeous this morning. Despite the cold, I actually carried the older girls outside onto our front porch in their pajamas (for a few seconds) to see it. I didn’t get a picture of the most stunning, bright-orange-and-pink part, but I did take this shot, a few minutes later, from our upstairs bathroom, snapped with… Read more »
Some photos from my weekend in Beaver Creek: That last one was an unintentional snapshot as I moving the phone into or out of my pocket. I think it turned into a rather cool abstract photo. More photos here.
Blah blah, debt ceiling, extortion, default, blah blah. Enough! It’s over! Look, a rainbow! Taken in our neighborhood yesterday. (Would’ve been prettier, if not for the Tea Party! … Sorry.) P.S. Also… 30 days till college football starts! YAY!!!
(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan.)
It seems like, every time I go running, I see something beautiful in the sky. Last night, it was the rising Full Buck Moon, sitting right smack in the middle of the Earth’s shadow — or as I like to (inaccurately) call it, the “anti-horizon” — low in the eastern sky. The view in the western sky wasn’t bad, either.
On Saturday, Becky and the girls and I had a fun day-trip adventure in the mountains, visiting St. Mary’s Glacier and Echo Lake and then heading up Mount Evans, the only “14er” that you can drive to (almost) the top of — on the highest paved road in North America. If you can’t tell from the above shot, it feels… Read more »
Remember those anticrepuscular cloud shadows that I posted a picture of the other day? Well, while out running this evening, I saw some more — and also the accompanying crepuscular cloud shadows on the western horizon. Behold, both sides (west and east) of the same sky-wide pillars of shadow: A few minutes later, the view on the western side became… Read more »
Here’s a 20-minute video, compressed to 48 seconds, of that rainbow I photographed yesterday, slowly moving to the right (as the clouds move to the left) and then eventually disappearing. In the early part of the clip, there’s also a hint of a second rainbow, off to the right of the main rainbow. Anyway…
A rainbow, framed by a church: It was right over the church earlier, but got more spectacular as it inched away — though not nearly as spectacular as another well-framed rainbow that long-time readers might remember.
The climbing roses had trouble at first, but they are clearly making a comeback: