Category Archives: Colorado

Okay, I did these on the laptop because I’m stupid. And Hugin is amazing for aligning and stitching panoramic photos. Definitely use the Autopano-sift-C plugin for autodetecting control points. Stitching together so many photos in a row, Hugin ends up … Continue reading →

Today we entered Rocky Mountain National Park from the east, drove counterclockwise to the Grand Lake exit, had lunch, and drove back. The light in early morning and late afternoon didn’t give me good pictures in the eastern half of … Continue reading →

From the balconette of our Estes Park hotel room: A most peculiar tree, wouldn’t you agree? Ah, mystery solved.

View Larger Map From Ft. Collins to Estes Park, we took the scenic route yesterday on Colorado Road 43 through Roosevelt National Park. I’m particularly fond of mountain driving, with winding roads and the smells of pines and water. We … Continue reading →

Just east of College Avenue across from the south end of the main Colorado State University campus is the Annual Flower Trial Garden. Under the supervision of two horticulture faculty, students and volunteers plant and tend thousands of flowers to … Continue reading →

Sometime as a child, I spent a great deal of time in the proximity of a poster of giant trees (probably oaks) lined in rows through a grassy expanse, their lowest limbs perhaps thirty feet from the ground, and people … Continue reading →