Well, the gardeners have shown up at my front door.

Nice night in November to see the aurora

#Colorado Water Congress Summer Convention #CWCSC2025 The Yampa River Core Trail runs right through downtown Steamboat. Photo credit City of Steamboat Springs. I’m hopping on my bicycle for the ride up the Yampa River to the Steamboat Grand for …

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Long Lonesome Highway-Big "T" Water YouTube video by ThenCameBronsonFan

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Colorado needs this moisture.

Happy Easter, everyone. It doesn't matter if Easter is in mid-March, early April or mid-April, it seems to bring the snow.

Northern Water, environmentalists reach $100M settlement, allowing reservoir project to continue Northern Colorado communities will pay $100 million to settle an environmental lawsuit and allow a $2 billion reservoir project to continue.

Northern Water, environmentalists reach $100M settlement, allowing reservoir project to continue

Marsrise.

The Sangre de Christo mountains in southern Colorado

Great to be home after some time away. Also great to see the Sangre de Christos in all their glory.

Started the new year with a tour of the Kitt Peak National Observatories. Very cool being on a sky island.

A quick postscript. Six of these were taken with a monster full-frame #Pentax K-1 mk II; two with a small #omsystem OM-5; and two with an iPhone. Takeaway: it’s not the camera, it’s about noticing the cool things going on around you and, if you’re lucky, recording an image #photography

Top #photos of 2024, No. 1 and 2. Finally, 2024 will always have a place in my heart for how I needed to keep looking up even when I was down. The eclipse occurred right after I lost a dear family member, and the unexpected aurora superstorm a month later was a reminder of forces far beyond us. 5/5

4 and 3. I love getting on th trail but don’t do it often enough. Here are pics from hikes in the Chiricahuas and in the burn scar of the 2020 Cameron Peak fire. I love how the columbines are bringing the color back to a damaged forest. 4/5

6 and 5. Lots of celestial vents in 2024 (more to come!). The comet was unexpected, and when I drove out of the city to try to capture it, I wasn’t sure what to expect. The eclipse was a known quantity, but the cloud cover was an unexpected variable. This was taken in northeast Texas, east of Paris

8 ad 7. My year started with a camping trip to #bigbend National Park. Seeing the Ro Grand in person here instead of on a map was grilling, but the dark sky without any obvious satellites in frame was incredible. 2/5

My 10 favorite #photo selections from 2024, with a little commentary.
10. And 9. In late fall and early winter, the weather pattern and sun angle create great #sunset opportunities on the Colorado Front Range. This year was above average. 1/5

Another interesting sunset - with snow happening behind these clouds!

The sun’s southernmost sunset of the year plus some mountain wave clouds created a great view today. View is of Longs Peak, elev. 14,256 feet, from Berthoud, Colorado #cowx

A ribbon of blue below a curtain of black.

The return from #CRWUA2024 is always a time to think about the future. But sometimes the present is just amazing

Adulthood is when you find out that Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Vegas are just a couple of older Hispanic men looking to make a few bucks

For the best posts about the conference, look to @coyotegulch.bsky.social over the next few days.

For those who don’t know, #CRWUA stands for #ColoradoRiver Water Users Association, a group dedicated to bringing together people from across the river basin to talk about issues. Lots of good conversations across myriad topics.

The sun is rising(?) at #CRWUA24 . I’m looking forward to advancing conversations with my colleagues throughout the basin in the next three days.

Maj. Stephen Long came through this area in late June/early July 1820 and didn’t see the great November sunsets over the peak that settlers gave his name to.

Sunset along the Poudre River in Northern Colorado.

The November sunset didn’t disappoint at Lake #Loveland today. #cowx

November sunsets on the Front Range are sometimes fantastic.

Had a fun visit to the Colorado State University Water Resources Archive and came across this portrait of David Boyd, namesake of Boyd Lake east of #Loveland

A comet and satellite appear to form the letter X in the sky west of Fort Collins

A comet and satellite crossed paths in the sky west of Fort Collins a few weeks ago and gave me the signal that X wasn’t the place to be anymore