August 20, 2014

Trail Ridge Road

Seventy-three degrees below, forty-three on top; 12,000+ feet, windy, blue skies pocketed with fluffy white and occasional gray clouds. Tundra invisible in May, snow-banked tunnels, life-threatening white-out drive; Today, barren naked mountain tops spotted by white ice dressed in millions of freshly watered green pines, aspens, more. Difficult breathing, fierce winds ignored, time to absorb.

                                                               

Tripod Blitzed

Tripod cracks, camera at precipice falls, Debbie’s professional demeanor crushed. Solution for every problem, purchase! Mountain wildlife wait, Elk at high altitudes, birds everywhere. Marmots, chipmunks, squirrels, play keeping watchful eye for visitors with contraband. Humans from every nation, like ants, explore the church of the great outdoors. New tripod will capture nature’s vast wonderland.

                                                              

World Gone Berserk

Racial hatred, bitter history, explodes with Missouri killing. Beheading in Mid-East, plague in Africa, pollution in Asia, starvation, growing poverty, corruption, and crime! From beginning, nature blind to all evolves century after century manifesting beauty in every niche. Man-made destruction, technology out of control, climate change threatens. Humankind unlikely to save itself, will nature survive?