Posts in the “colorado” category

Tonight’s brown sunlight, thanks to some wildfires in the Rocky Mountains west and south of Boulder, Colorado.

Sadly, cases of COVID-19 are sharply on the rise in Colorado. I know that MANY people at my apartment complex don’t wear masks as they walk around, swim in the pool, and exercise, so this isn’t a huge surprise.

Up to date data about COVID-19 in Colorado can be found at this page.

My software tells me that I took this photo of the big open sky here in Broomfield, Colorado on January 26, 2014.

Kind of a weird situation: I’ve been thinking about moving lately, and that led to the thought that if a doctor told me I only had six months left to live, I know where I would live. But I generally like a lot of things about Colorado, so I live here. Hmm...

The front of my current apartment complex in Broomfield, Colorado faces the Rocky Mountains, and the back-right portion of the complex has these neigh-bors.

The Sun setting over the Rocky Mountains, June 11, 2020, as seen from Broomfield, Colorado.

Last night I went up on the roof of the garage at sunset time and ended up with this nice photo. I didn’t have batteries charged for my good camera, so I shot this one with my iPhone.

A few nights ago it looked like pilots were playing a game of tic-tac-toe in the sky over Boulder, Colorado.

The apartment complex where I currently live in Colorado has a basketball goal on the roof of the garage. That doesn’t sound too bad, but the roof is six stories up. That’s just a wee bit intimidating, so for now I’m shooting from inside twenty feet. :)

I was a little busy making popcorn and missed most of tonight’s sunset, but I managed to catch this photo right before it disappeared.

Back on June 19, 2012, the Sun looked enormous as it set over the Rocky Mountains, just west of Boulder, Colorado.

Still on my bucket list, thanks to meeting a native American shaman several years ago: See the wild horses of the Sand Wash Basin. (Thanks to the AAA magazine for this reminder.)

Several good quotes from this article about Peyton Manning making his free agent decision:

(1) “I don’t know what to do. What does a free agent do?” (Peyton Manning)

(2) “Remember the Patton principle: Make a decision and do it like hell.” (David Cutcliffe to Manning)

(3) It was getting down to decision time. “These are not math problems,” Cutcliffe told Manning, “they don't have single right answers.”

(4) On Saturday night Manning called Dungy to discuss the pros and cons of the three finalists: Denver, Arizona, Tennessee. Then he asked, “Are there any other things I should be thinking about?”

Said Dungy, “I told him it's never going to be 100%. He had so many good choices, it’s going to be 51/49, or maybe 50/50, and then it just comes down to a gut feeling. I told him what [Hall of Fame coach] Chuck Noll told me a long time ago: When you’re making an important life decision, make sure it’s without regard to money, title or position. Make sure it’s about who you’re going to be working with and how much you’ll enjoy being there.”

This is a photo of some nurses in Denver, Colorado, blocking anti-lockdown protests. The image comes from this Twitter page.

I haven’t bought too many statues in my life, but I did buy some of these howling dog/coyote/wolf statues while I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They remind me of Zeus and some other Siberian Huskies I have known.

Today (April 8, 2020) is a day off for me, but I woke up early and went up to the roof of the garage to see the big Moon. This is a photo of the Moon setting in the west, and the Sun rising in the east, within about fifteen minutes of each other.

Here’s another view of that bright star that’s due west over the Rocky Mountains, as seen from my tiny apartment in Broomfield, Colorado.

A great thing about living in this area of Colorado is that there’s a bright star that shines due west over the Rocky Mountains. Every night I open up the shades so I can see it. The only thing that’s on my bucket list is to spend as much time as possible in the mountains to see all of stars up close.

The star is the white dot in the center and bottom one-third of the image, above the roof. It looks more impressive in person. The big white blob in the upper-left is the Moon.

Our sunset on the evening of Thursday, March 26, 2020, had a pastel feel.

On the drive back from Vegas this weekend, the road got icy in the mountains near Vail, so I decided I better pull off and stay at a hotel, or sleep in the car if necessary. I wasn’t happy about it. Even though it was after 2am, I was jacked up on Mountain Dew, and just wanted to finish the last ninety miles to get home.

I got off the interstate at the next exit. The roads were nasty slick, and I slid around the dark collection of motels and gas stations until I saw a skanky motel whose “Vacancy” sign was lit. My car couldn’t make it up the motel’s hilly entrance, so I parked in an open flat area below, grabbed a bag, and walked five minutes in the freezing precipitation to get to the motel entrance, finding footing anywhere I could.