This tree house overlooks Cottonwood Creek Park. There are quite a few residences that back up to the park, and most of them have gates from the back yards to the Park path.
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Pikes Peak from Cottonwood Creek Park
I had a little time before an early morning appointment yesterday and was near Cottonwood Creek Park. I took this from the best vantage point accessible without risking steep icy paths. (It would have been so embarrassing being featured in the newspaper as “Stupid Woman Rescued from Cottonwood Creek While Taking Photographs.”) It is very odd to see Pikes Peak so bare in January. Trivia: Pikes Peak was originally Pike’s Peak, but the apostrophe was removed because Official Names can’t have apostrophes.
Hoodoo
I don’t know if this actually qualifies as a hoodoo, but like the word so much I couldn’t resist.
Shamrocks
Oddly, the pot of shamrocks closer to the window has no blooms at present.
Clown
My friend’s cat Clown has grown a lot since last August.
Happy MMXI
Good wishes for a great 2011! (This photo is from a week ago. This morning it is too bitterly cold to go out for snapshots.)
Pretty, But Cold
It was 4F when I went out to feed horses this morning. It took me almost as long to get dressed in multiple layers as to do the barn work. We didn’t get as much snow as was forecast, only three to four inches. Since I heard the wind last night, I was surprised that there wasn’t more drifting.
Storm Warning
When I fed horses this morning, there was only a scrap or two of clouds in the sky. As I headed for the grocery store, I could see the clouds starting to move in, and it is now snowing heavily and sticking to the ground. That sugar loaf shaped mountain is Mt Herman.
Just Another Colorado Sunrise
Happy Holidays…
from Rion and the rest of us.