Mercantile Dining & Provision Restaurant

[Categories: Photography, Travel, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever, Food] I don't usually blog about restaurants (see my TripAdvisor instead) unless they are part of a vacation but Mercantile Dining & Provision in the Union Station Denver was Drop... Dead... Delicious!! We arrived 11:30-ish for lunch, beating the busy lunch crowd (from downtown offices I presume) that …

Union Station Denver

[Categories: Photography, Travel, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] This was not a photography expedition.  Photos were taken with a Canon ELPH100HS and enhanced for brightness in iPhoto.   The Great Hall: What others wait for I'm not sure. The recently refurbished station has many fine new restaurants that attract downtown employees and tourists alike.  There …

Paonia Wine Weekend June 2014 – Pt. IV and last

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] [See all Paonia Wine Weekend posts here.] [Gallery/multiple photos: Click any photo to enlarge.  See photo info lower right corner.  Lens was the 18-55mm.  Click View Full Size if desired. Single photos: Click on any photo to enlarge.  Click again for extra zoom detail.  Use your Back Page method to …

Paonia Wine Weekend June 2014 – Pt. III – Wines and Wineries

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] [See all Paonia Wine Weekend posts here.] [Gallery/multiple photos: Click any photo to enlarge.  See photo info lower right corner.  Lens was the 18-55mm.  Click View Full Size if desired. Single photos: Click on any photo to enlarge.  Click again for extra zoom detail.  Use your Back Page method to …

Paonia Wine Weekend June 2014 – Pt. II – Wines and Wineries

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] [Gallery/multiple photos: Click any photo to enlarge.  See photo info lower right corner.  Lens was the 18-55mm.  Click View Full Size if desired. Single photos: Click on any photo to enlarge.  Click again for extra zoom detail.  Use your Back Page method to return.] M'lady and I spent a long …

Paonia Wine Weekend June 2014 – Pt. I

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] [Gallery/multiple photos: Click any photo to enlarge.  See photo info lower right corner.  Lens was the 18-55mm.  Click View Full Size if desired. Single photos: Click on any photo to enlarge.  Click again for extra zoom detail.  Use your Back Page method to return.] M'lady and I spent a long …

Dog Days – A Walk In The Park

[Categories: Photography, Dogs] It is taking me forever to read and review Lapham's Quarterly and forever to post pictures in my Florida 2014 series .  Today was time for a break and a walk in the park.  A dog walk in particular.  A charity dog walk in support of cures for pet cancer. Let's see if I …

Colorado Winter Activities 2014 Part III

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever, Winter Activities] [Photos are in gallery mode which will provide camera 'Exif' info for those interested. Click on any photo to enlarge and view full caption data.  Photo info is in lower right corner, as is 'View full size'.  View full and zoom again for extra detail.  (I …

Colorado Winter Activities 2014 Part II

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever, Winter Activities] [Photos are in gallery mode which will provide camera 'Exif' info for those interested. Click on any photo to enlarge and view full caption data.  Photo info is in lower right corner, as is 'View full size'.  View full and zoom again for extra detail.  Click …

Colorado Winter Activities 2014 Part I

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever, Winter Activities] [Photos are grouped in galleries which will provide 'Exif' info for those interested. Click on any photo to enlarge and view group in a slide show.  Photo info is in lower right corner, as is 'View full size'.  View full and zoom again for extra detail. …

Breckenridge Snow Sculptures January 2014 (TWISTED!)

[Categories: Photography, Travel Photography, Photography 101 Forever] [Photos are grouped in galleries which will provide 'Exif' info for those interested. Click on any photo to enlarge and view group in a slide show.  Photo info is in lower right corner, as is 'View full size'.  View full and zoom again for extra detail.  Click X …

Cloudburst

[Categories: Photography.] [Click on photos to enlarge, user browser Back button to return.] There have been some cloudy days in life recently.  It's time for Colorado cloud pictures, taken just south of Denver, accompanied by the great jazz tune Cloudburst.  This is sung in rapid, staccato fashion.  Can you read it like that? Lambert, Hendricks, …

Colorado marijuana. The people have spoken.

[Categories: Marijuana.  Colorado. Conservative thought.] The people of Colorado approved Amendment 64 to the state constitution in Nov. 2012, allowing personal use and commercial sale/regulation of marijuana.  (Wikipedia.)  Legal consumption and sale went into effect 1 January 2014. According to Wikipedia (previous link) 55.32% (1,383,139) voted for the amendment, 44.68% (1,116,894) voted against, a difference of 10.64%. …

Summit County INDIAN SUMMER

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] Indian Summer?  What's up with that?  First we had Summit County Early Autumn, then Mid-Late Autumn, Farewell to Autumn, and Autumn is Gone. Didn't I mention we often get pleasant weather during the 1st week or two in October?  Sorry about that.  Not so pleasant late last week, but beautiful blue …

Summit County AUTUMN IS GONE. I TOLD YOU SO!

[CATEGORIES: Travel, Photography.] Evernote web clips of Copper Mountain ski area cameras: It is early yet for winter skiing but it won't be long.

Summit County Mid-Late Autumn – Photography 101 forever

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] [Click on pictures to enlarge.  Click on enlargement to get realllllly big.  Find your way back to this page somehow.  🙂 ]Yes it is barely a week since I posted about early autumn in Colorado but things change fast here.  My guess is a decent Colorado autumn averages about 2 weeks, though …

Summit County Early Autumn – Photography 101 forever

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Travel Photography.] [Click on pictures to enlarge.  Click on enlargement to get realllllly big.  Find your way back to this page somehow.  🙂 ] We had a good snowfall, Sunday the 22nd I think it was.  Areas above treeline (about 11,000') remain covered. F-stop is the focal length of the camera lens divided …

Summit County September

[CATEGORIES: Photography, Recreation, Travel.] Contrary to published reports, not all of Colorado is under water this mid-September 2013.  It does seem like the state has either been on fire or flooded all summer.  We just do that so people don't think it is too nice here. These pictures were taken between 9 and 12 September, …

FRESH POW, Powder Skiing, Copper Mountain Colorado, 05Mar2013, Part DEUX

[POW: Ski culture vernacular for powder snow.  This isn't about gun control.] It SHOULD have been a powder day. There was a brief but fierce  blizzard in Summit County Monday 4Mar2013 with 2 major pile-ups on I-70 near Silverthorne. Views from the condo Monday afternoon post-blizzard and Tuesday morning were beautiful: (On my Macbook I …

FRESH POW, Powder Skiing, Copper Mountain Colorado, 05Mar2013

[POW: Ski culture vernacular for powder snow.  This isn't about gun control.] It SHOULD have been a powder day.  Snowfalls have been better recently: There was a brief but fierce  blizzard in Summit County yesterday (Mon. 4Mar2013) with 2 major pile-ups on I-70 just a couple of miles from here, one with 25 cars and …