It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is another of the beautifully detailed models that were at the Colorado Railroad Museum built by Herbert Votaw. This is of a Big Boy, number 4019. The coal in it's tender is from an actual Big Boy as is the sand in it's sand dome. It was built between 1958 and 1962 and took 2050 hours of work! It is 133 inches long and weighs 410 lbs.
Today's image is of a beautiful sunrise that I saw while on my way into work on Thursday morning. Right now is about prime time for me to see those but will be gone soon. I'm either too late or too early.
Happy Friday, TGIF! It's a double digit day today! 😁 Todays image is one that I took in Minnesota. In the area where we camp while up there for the show, in back of the shower house is a garden of lovely Hollyhocks. This is a lovely red one with some lovely bokeh behind because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!
We have been a bit warm this week after having some pretty frigid temps. I felt like sharing a butterfly today due to that as I am looking forward to spring. 😀 This is a Giant Swallowtail butterfly that I captured on a Cone Flower or Echinacea this past summer.
It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog! Today's flower is one from this Spring. This is Old Plainsman that usually blooms from April to June and is in the Sunflower family. It can grow to 3 feet tall and is very hardy and drought tolerant. I am not sure where the name came from, probably because it was around for quite awhile. 😊
This is an image of our state bird, the Western Meadowlark. While I was not able to get that close I still like this image a lot because it shows very typical behavior of them sitting in a field and singing out.
Happy Monday and happy new week! My mother-in-law has a very lovely Orchid in bloom that I saw while I was visiting over Thanksgiving. I had to take and share a photo of it.
