Random Pictures Thread

Steelart99 said:
Some pics that are a bit different than Arn's cityscapes. :cowboy:

Final destination on our Monday morning hike (2600' elevation gain) up to 11,200' altitude. Near Silverthorne, Colorado

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View from concert venue on same Monday night overlooking Lake Dillon in Colorado

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Local park, Paint Mines (Calhan, Colorado - East of Colorado Springs), with some pretty strange looking Hoodoos. Indians used to collect all the various colored clays from this area for making pottery. Fun place to kick around in with kids. About 20 miles away from home.

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But nothing beat’s nature Dan- untouched and just all natural. Gorgeous scenery.
 
DLJeffs said:
Nice to see a bit of forest up there that isn't beetle killed.
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Still lots of areas with beetle kill, and the hike up to the mountain lake had lots of downed trees along the way. That said, there has been significant recovery since the bad beetle kill around 2007-2010. Most of the new growth (Pine) are in the 10'-20' tall range. Aspen groves have taken over some areas too.
 
Steelart99 said:
Still lots of areas with beetle kill, and the hike up to the mountain lake had lots of downed trees along the way. That said, there has been significant recovery since the bad beetle kill around 2007-2010. Most of the new growth (Pine) are in the 10'-20' tall range. Aspen groves have taken over some areas too.
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I can still see the images in my mind, coming westward out of the Eisenhower Tunnel and seeing nothing but rust colored forests.
 
Steelart99 said:
Actually, I'm in the area of Kiowa which is know for the petrified wood. We get about 95% terra-cotta-ish colored petrified wood with the other 5% being agatized with wide variety of colors and translucence. And we do have it in abundance on the ridgeline that we live on.

When we first moved here, I had no idea what all this "broken pottery" was that we had scattered everywhere. Once I figure out that it was P-wood, I started collecting it ... by the 100's of pounds. Then I stopped doing that as it got ridiculous. So now, we only pick up the some of the 5% that is more-special (that's gotta be a real term, right?)

I'll put up some pics at some point.
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Hey neighbor, they won’t let me pick up any of the pieces right down the street….at Fossil Beds National Monument.
 
trc65 said:
Looking southeast from the top of the apricot tree. Corn is looking good this year.

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Our corn it 16-20 inches high. Most places were too wet to plant, or the corn rotted from all the rain. Some places they replanted. Some of those fields have rough plants that made it through the wet.

Is that one of your famous pumpkin plants lower left?
 
Mr. Peet said:
Our corn it 16-20 inches high. Most places were too wet to plant, or the corn rotted from all the rain. Some places they replanted. Some of those fields have rough plants that made it through the wet.

Is that one of your famous pumpkin plants lower left?
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Good eye on the pumpkin!

They started corn planting here the first week of April. Soil temps were good and moisture a little dry. Weather and conditions haven't been perfect, but pretty nice overall.
 
Nature Man said:
What are castor beans? Never heard of them!
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Definitely not edible. Mostly used commercially for production of castor oil, but the seeds also contain ricin which is a deadly poison. What I grow are ornamental varieties selected for leaf size and colors throughout the plant.
 
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