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.
Faded Pansies
This photo is a bit unusual for me, because I edited it going for the sort of look you get in an old photo that has been left out in the sun too long.
Fall Glow
This is fall leaves along a hiking and bike path above the St Lewis River in Minnesota. This is a tone mapped HDR image that was taken hand held, which is why some of the edges are strangely colored, but it still conveys the amazing colors you get when hiking through forests in the fall.