Category Archives: Nature and the Outdoors

Animal #69 — Northern Pocket Gopher

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Roger

thomomys talpoides Thursday, July 20, 2017 — 5:00 pm Monument, Colorado During the seven and a half months that we lived in a basement, the cats discovered a variety of animals in the window wells — three cottontails, a mouse, … Continue reading →

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Pikes Peak Summit

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Roger

I’m not going to attempt to put my photos in any sort of order. We enjoyed the view for a while until the cog railroad train headed back down. Our friend told us this was the time to go inside … Continue reading →

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Pikes Peak — Going Up

Posted on July 16, 2017 by Roger

Our friends drove us to the summit of Pikes Peak. It was a beautiful Sunday after two days of rain, and a lot of people chose the same adventure. Here’s the mountain from I-25 near the Air Force training field. … Continue reading →

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Animal #68 — American Pika

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Roger

ochotona princeps Saturday, July 8, 2017 — 11:20 am Mount Evans — Arapaho National Forest, Colorado I hiked to the top of Mount Evans with a group from work. On my way down, I passed through a large boulder field about 500 … Continue reading →

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Bird #482 — Brown-capped Rosy-Finch

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Roger

leucosticte (from leuko, white, and stictos, varicolored) australis (a hypothetical southern continent) Saturday, July 8, 2017 — 9:40 am Mount Evans — Arapaho National Forest, Colorado I climbed the trail from Summit Lake to the summit of Mount Evans with … Continue reading →

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