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2016 12 Dec
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. (Bob Dylan) / Viewing a sunset on the Croatia coast... Let's all bid adieu to 2016. Now on to the next one!
A record drop in temperature brought more snow to Colorado Springs and the southern Colorado front range; end of December
A wintertime mountain view, and skiing poles in the snow on Hoosier Ridge, Colorado
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, it's glistening once again, with candy canes and silver lanes that glow. (Meredith Willson) / candy canes and a Merry Christmas 2016
Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. (Brandi Carlile) / ice creeps across the lake to make out-of-this-world formations at the bank
I sometimes wonder what would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away...? (Anna Neagle) / ice on a cold Colorado morning
Hike over Music Pass and keep going up the valley... beautiful mountain views at Upper and Lower Sand Creek Lake!
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know;
Where the treetops glisten and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow (Bing Crosby) / a dusting of snow and Christmas ornamentation in the tree
Winter, spring, summer, fall... The twin sentinels of East and West Buffalo Peak stand watch over the valley; winter in Colorado
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller) / a sunset vista at Bluewater Lake State Park
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. (Christopher Paolini) / heaps of sand at the White Sands National Monument
This is Baby, a wolf-dog hybrid at the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Foundation (rmwf.org). Sometimes she's too shy to come out, but when I visited she was happy, content and chewing on a bone.
Lego Man emerges from the wild, wild forest to greet us. Where will his adventures take him next...?
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; how much it can fill your room depends on the windows. (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi) / a full moon and light through the window glass
When wintry winds are piercing chill, And through the hawthorn blows the gale, With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) / winter gets into swing in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Up-close on some bright orange flowers; photowalk fun
December is upon us, and Christmas lights are going up fast!
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott) / private sailing boats at the Naples waterfront club
Extending across over 100 square miles, Black Forest is named for the high density of Ponderosa Pines in the area. And every once in a while, when the trees thin out, you can catch a view of Pikes Peak and the Rockies.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. (Michael Caine) / a little mallard duck cruising the lake during winter