Polluting the River. Polluting your Mind.
A week and a half ago, after several days camping in a spot where we had zero connection to the internet, the kids and I pulled into Durango, Colorado to stock up on food and gas before heading to Mesa…
Roxborough State Park – My Shot of the Day – July 21, 2014
This picture is of Colorado's Front Range looking north from Roxborough State Park in a light rain just a few days ago. I was driving north again to the Keystone and Lake Dillon areas for a few days of hiking…
A Short (but awesome!) Colorado Road Trip
We left Taos in a pretty violent lightning storm and it rained hard all the way to the Colorado border at Antonito. Our Colorado road trip was supposed to extend for over a week but given a very busy summer,…
Great Sand Dunes in Colorado – My Shot of the Day – June 17, 2014
(Please help support my upcoming work in Finland) "It looks like a painting." That was Ilan. This wasn't his first visit to the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado but I think the view finally sunk in and not just the…
Hot Air Balloons, Train Rides, Sand Dunes…the Past Three Weeks
It always happens this way. Its not like our summers aren't full of all kinds of activity but when late August rolls around I feel that winter haunts like the Grim Reaper. I'm not a fan of winter. So, the…
The Milky Way – My Shot of the Day – September 9, 2013
Behold! The Milky Way. I'm not really sure what else to say about it....a giant sweeping mass of stars above our camp at Great Sand Dunes National Park. And there below is our little tent out under that mass of…
Cumbres Toltec Railroad End of the Line – My Shot of the Day – September 3, 2013
Cumbres Toltec Railroad I mentioned in the MY SHOT of the Day from Sunday that kids and I rode the Cumbres Toltec Railroad Friday with my father and his wife at the end of last week. The ride is just…
Old Catholic Churches – San Isadore – My Shot of the Day September 1, 2013
Another addition to my list of Old Catholic churches. This is San Isadore Church in Las Mesitas, Colorado, destroyed by fire in 1975. The day after the kids and I rode the Cumbres-Toltec Railroad with my dad and his wife…
Pueblo Colorado Photo Essay
Pueblo Colorado Photo Essay When the international steel-market crashed in the early 1980s my hometown of Pueblo Colorado took a massive hit. The Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) steel mill on the south side of town was long the main industry…
No Rain – My Shot of the Day – June 4, 2013
It has just simply stopped raining. My buddy John Fleck reports that water supplies are the worst ever seen: With the preliminary April 1 runoff forecast numbers in hand, this is “the worst year ever” on the Rio Grande, according…
Isabella on a Hot Tin Roof – My Shot of the Day – November 5, 2012
Well, OK. There was nothing "hot" about this roof. Nor "tin". In fact, yesterday evening was a chilly (but not cold), shingle-covered garage roof in a Pueblo, Colorado backyard - a roof my brother and I frequented as kids. I…
Pikes Peak Colorado – My Shot of the Day – November 2, 2012
There was never a time I didn't know this mountain. From the house I grew up in, you could walk down the driveway to the street, turn left, walk less than 30 yards and look right - and there is…