Colorado Hodgepodge (Spring 2013)

Written by ceddammit

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Official Greetings! Welcome to this week’s ThrowBack Thursday! This week’s episode (and believe me, I’ve had plenty of “episodes”) is a hodgepodge of photos from three day trips, each of which took place some time in the spring of 2013. We start things off in the countryside around the town of Larkspur, Colorado…

I hereby christen this formation…Moo Mesa

…then up into the forest west of Larkspur, into the woods of Rampart Range…

Very mature pine forest (note the complete lack of ground plants)
Gnarled old pine tree
Detail of gnarled old pine tree
Iddo biddy purple flowers
A standing but dead tree is called a snag; they are important wildlife habitat.
Not your typical lodgepole pine tree
Pine Shadow
Another atypical lodgepole pine tree

On another day that same spring, I went to the fabled old mining town of Central City, Colorado…

I hiked up through the old residential part of Central City…
…up to where the old mines are…
…up above the modern casinos and parking structures…
…and followed an old railroad grade, to the “other side” of the city…
…the side that tourists never see.
Looking down at a lower section of the old railroad grade.
There are gates with “No Trespassing” signs at either end of this section of the old railroad grade. Who knows what additional interesting stuff may be found there?

On yet another day that same spring, I finally (after living in Colorado for nearly 22 years) photographed what I call “The Reveal” on Interstate 70 west of Denver…

I didn’t drive up I-70 just to photograph The Reveal. No, I was on my way to the ghost town of Gilman, and to what is probably the most-photographed bridge in the state of Colorado. But I’ll leave those for next week.

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