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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Lights in the sky!

Finally, after months of teasing, we had Northern Lights last night! Not only were they there, but the sky here was clear at the same time! My camera wasn't up to the task of capturing the proof, so all the cool images are Charlie's and a few dozen other people in the area who have posted them over on Facebook. His best one was from right in front of the house but there's so much light-pollution in town, we--Vale, Rob, Charlie and I--got in the car and drove a few miles north where there's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Lights in the sky!

Finally, after months of teasing, we had Northern Lights last night! My camera wasn't up to the task of capturing the proof, so all the cool images are Charlie's and a few dozen other people in the area who have posted them over on Facebook. His best one was from right in front of the house but there's so much light-pollution in town, we--Vale, Rob, Charlie and I--got in the car and drove a few miles north where there's practically none. The colors had died down by then, but oh, the stars! So... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

If you liked the sunset...

...you're going to enjoy this sunrise over Colorado Springs! Usually, I stand at the back door--a sliding glass door--or drag open the bathroom window that looks southeast, but today that just wasn't going to do it: I got dressed sufficiently for going out in the morning twilight--temps in the low 60s already at 7am-- and actually walked down the street to get these shots. https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C And thank you all for the lovely comments you left on yesterday's post! I really appreciate the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

It's only 5 pm!

Oh, how I resent these wacky and pointless messings about with time! The day is still the day, and morning and evening come in their due course, and this shifting of external clocks really skews my internal clock for absolutely no good reason! Half my clocks are set for Daylight Savings and half are on Standard, and I am still arguing over which ones are correct. And then there's the one on Chaos Time that needs a new battery. Anyway, at 5pm this afternoon I took a few pictures of the sunset... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 3, 2025

Yoyo weather, yoyo time!

Last week there was that overnight temp of 15 F. Yesterday it was 83 in the afternoon. Today, the high is mid-50s and overnight will drop into the 30s. Tomorrow, 74. Welcome to Colorado in the Season of the Layering! And here we are again in the time of time confusion. Half the clocks in my house are aligned with my internal time, the rest are lying. By next week, though, those are the ones I'll be believing. Stupid system, this time switch twice a year, instead of simply living in the world of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

HOW cold...?!

This morning I asked as I usually do when I wake up and before I climb out of the warmth of bed and comforter, "Alexa, what's the temperature?" Lately, the answer has been somewhere in the 30s. Yep, winter is coming and the leaves are giving up the green. This morning...? "15 degrees. Expect a high today of 54." 15!? Seriously? Apparently so. And last night around midnight I heard the voices of a small gathering of coyotes somewhere near, maybe a block away. There's a strip of wild along a creek... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 27, 2025

I knew this was coming...

There's a wind up and the leaves are rattling on the great old maple tree off the end of my deck, and flurries of leaves are dancing in the air like frantic butterflies! Last week the maple was still green, just showing a bit of gold, and it only took a couple of cold nights for the change. Today was warm, low 70s, but now the sun has ducked behind the mountains and the thermometer is heading down the glass rapidly. If the wind keeps up through the night, I expect I'll be able to see Pike's Peak... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Ah, Nature!

In the nature documentaries it's always a clean, quick, quiet kill... Sunday morning up in the mountains, it was not. I heard an owl hoot twice, really near and loud, and then a scream... and that screaming--a rabbit, I think--went on for long seconds moving very fast across the lake before all went silent. I also never heard of an owl announcing its pounce, if that was indeed what was happening. I'm imagining Darth Vader gloating, " I have you now! " Clearly, The Force was not with the rabbit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Further Adventures of the Weekend

Besides the skies, there are the trees. Over in Facebook I've been posting a lot of images in the Unique Trees group for a while and that's made me more than ever aware everywhere I go of how beautiful trees are! Up high in the mountains, here on the verge of winter, all the aspens have dropped their colors and stand like pale ghosts in their clusters among the dark evergreens. It doesn't take much sunlight to make them glow! We drove up through Nederland (you might have heard of a terrible... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 20, 2025

What an adventure!

This past weekend was the final LARP weekend of the year at Lake Tumbleson, a YMCA campground near Ward, Colorado. It's a little over 9000 ft elevation so about 3000 ft higher than what we're used to but not enough of a difference to notice much. And it's an 80 mile drive each way. We were supposed to head up there on Friday--Charlie, Vale, and I--and got as far as Castlerock when suddenly a warning light--something about transmission temperature--flashed on. Not good. Vale works at O'Reilly's... Sign in to see full entry.

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