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.

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.