Road To Black Canyon

After the Dunes we drove to the Black of the Gunnison. On the way we stopped by this pretty little mountain stream.

Along the road we saw this thunderstorm formation ahead of us - the classic anvil shape is very obvious here.

Great Sand Dunes At Sunset

Finally, just before dusk, the weather broke and we saw the dunes the way they should be seen, with the beautiful light and dark contrasts of a low-hanging sun.

Great Sand Dunes

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When we got to the dunes it was mostly cloudy, but the sheer size of them still stood out. The highest are over 700 feet tall, making them the biggest on the continent. It's strange and amazing to see dunes right after a rainstorm, with water running through a creek next to them.

Wildfire And Road To Great Sand Dunes

I spent a few days in the middle of Colorado with family members, and I'll post some pictures from this trip over the next couple of weeks. First we went to the Great Sand Dunes. On the road to the Dunes we were fairly close to a wildfire (which was controlled rather quickly), and saw some spectacular clouds and sun.

Local Sunset

Here's one of our fiery sunsets from a couple of weeks ago.

Red Rock Canyon Open Space

I went for a walk this morning in Red Rock Canyon, a relatively new city park just south of Garden Of The Gods. The weather was threatening initially but lifted, making for a couple of interesting photographs. The first one is looking towards Garden Of The Gods.

I thought the light in this one was interesting.

And I found a wild cactus in bloom, something I don't see very often.

Baby Birds

Our house is surrounded by prairie grass that can get fairly tall in the summer. Birds nest on the ground, digging into clumps of the grass; I don't cut this natural grass back, and as a result we have a lot of birds around our house. The eggs have now hatched.