03/31/26

 So once again I was able to see a Heron in the typical way, flying away from me.  😏  I was able to capture a decent image of it though so I am sharing it today.  I captured this at the spillway from Milford Lake.

03/30/26

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  I felt like starting off the week with some sunny looking flowers.  These are my Rudbeckias and they make me happy.  They are coming up again so I hope to enjoy them again this summer.

03/29/26

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image is of Burlington Route locomotive 5629 at the Colorado Railroad Museum.  This locomotive was built in 1940 in Burlington Iowa and is a 4-8-4 wheel arrangement which means it was built for speed.  It began it's career running freight from Chicago to Denver and then between Lincoln Nebraska and Denver.  In 1961 in was converted to oil and was stored in Lincoln where it's boiler was used for heat during a renovation of the Lincoln train station.  On August 30, 1963 it was presented to the Colorado Railroad Museum by the CB&Q Vice President JJ Alms.  The move was rather complicated due to the size of the locomotive and more can be read about it HERE if interested.  

03/28/26

 We have cooled down for a couple days but I felt like showing this photo today because it's my day.  😉  This image is different than my usual snowflake image as this one was taken by my phone!  The quality of photos from a phone has really gotten pretty amazing in certain circumstances.  This is just a single image and not focus stacked like my others.

03/27/26

 It's Friday, TGIF!  My Wild Plum was beginning to bloom this past weekend.  In the heat we had it is probably done already, I have not had time to go check it this week.  I hope it is still blooming, they smell so good.  I could have used this image for Wildflower Wednesday as well but the bokeh was so good in it I had to share it for today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious here on the Blog!

03/26/26

 It's a double digit day!  It feels like summer out too, we are ridiculously hot yesterday and today as I write this, 98 F in March!  Ugh, I hate to think what summer will be like for real.  Anyway, I felt like looking at a butterfly on Cosmos, this is a Buckeye.

03/25/26

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is Purple Poppy Mallow.  It usually blooms April through August.  It can look much more purple.  It has a deep taproot that makes it very drought hardy.