Peak Moods (16) - Lovely

Peak moods is my series of photos of Pikes Peak as seen from our front porch. This shot was taken on Friday, after a couple of cold days. We even had some May snow flurries at our house!

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Peak Moods (15) - Icy

Here's a recent shot of Pikes Peak (although not the very top). While our weather was nice that day, the Peak looked really cold. All these Peak Moods shots are taken with a telephoto lens from my front porch.

It seems as if Skywatch Friday needs an account to link there, so I don't think I'll be joining that meme much longer.

Peak Moods (14) - Fiery

I'm back from visiting family - I hope that my readers who celebrate it had a wonderful Christmas. Here's another of my Peak Moods photos showing the various moods of Pikes Peak as seen from our front porch. This is a recent spectacular sunset.

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Peak Moods (13) - Pastel Sunset

To answer a couple of questions on Monday's post, I didn't see sea otters, and the tree is a cypress.

We've had some spectacular sunsets over the last couple of weeks - here's a photo from last week of Pikes Peak taken from our front porch. This is straight out of the camera, except for reducing the resolution I did no editing on this.

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Peak Moods (12) - Stormy Again

With all the stormy and snowy photos I post my readers must think that I live in a cold place with a horrible climate. Here's another cold and stormy photo, for my Peak Moods series of photos linked with Skywatch Friday, which are of Pikes Peak taken from my front porch, always within the previous week.

In fact it's usually sunny and rarely cold where I live, but that doesn't make for good photos so you don't see it as often. This weekend I went for several walks with the dogs in the warm sunshine, including in a nearby forest.

Peak Moods (11) - Refreshing

This photo was taken for Skywatch Friday yesterday morning from my front porch. I loved seeing all the new overnight snow on this 14,115-foot (4,302 meter) high mountain. Notice the very clear snowline just below treeline.

Peak Moods (10) - Beautiful

Peak Moods shows photos of Pikes Peak taken from my front porch, always very recent. This one was taken on Sunday morning after the recent snows (we had another 9 inches / 23 cm yesterday, but it's almost all gone now).

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Peak Moods (9) - Stormy Again

This photo was taken from our front porch on Saturday, it seems that the weeks of blue skies finally ended. We may even see some snow on Thursday before we warm up for the weekend. It's not B&W, the colors are natural.

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Peak Moods (8) - Cold

Summer is quickly coming to an end where I live. This was the view from my house with a telephoto lens as I left for work on Monday morning - the first real snow on Pikes Peak.

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Peak Moods (7) - Threatening

Another photo of Pikes Peak in my series taken from our porch - a threatening sky. Our monsoon seems to have arrived and we're getting almost daily thunderstorms, although the rest of the week should be clear.

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Peak Moods (6) - Gentle

This photo was taken on Monday from the front porch before I left for work. Yes, it really was glowing a gentle pink between layers of cloud.

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Peak Moods (5) - Unsettled

It's been a stormy couple of weeks - this photo was taken from our front porch.

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Peak Moods (4) - Fresh

My Peak Moods photos are taken from my front porch, usually in the morning when the light is good. This one shows the first real snow of the winter on Pikes Peak, late last week.

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Peak Moods (3) - Shining

I love it when the sun shines just on the top of Pikes Peak - it looks like it's floating in the sky.

Here's a wider view taken just a few minutes later.

It's another entry in my Peak Moods series for Skywatch Friday, taken from my front porch.

Peak Moods (2) - Dramatic

Pikes Peak showed its dramatic side this week, so I figured I'd put up my second post in my Peak Moods series. Both photos were taken from our front porch, then cropped and edited to pull out the gorgeous colors.

 The whole sky was dramatic during this sunset!

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Peak Moods (1) - Stormy

From our new house we can see Pikes Peak (elevation 14,114 feet or 4,302 meters) so I thought this would be a good time to start a new series for Skywatch Friday. I'm calling it Peak Moods, and it will show occasional views of the Peak in various guises. The first one is taken when the clouds cleared one recent morning.

But the clouds moved back in, resulting in an obscured, stormy view a few days later.

I do enjoy seeing this mountain while I eat my breakfast every morning. I had to edit these photos to crop out all the rooftops, and they originally had no contrast so I played with the color curves; hopefully I didn't overdo it...