Manitou Springs
Blue Sky, Birds and Clouds Helped Get My Spirits Soaring
Birds and Clouds Floating Across a Blue, Blue Sky Chase the Blues Away. This hike started with a bird cooperating with me for a photograph. Posed in a tree, then flew towards me on my next click of the camera. All day long other birds were seen, but I just couldn’t capture them. Still a […]
Ghost Clouds Chase the Blues Away
I did take a moonlight hike last night. I hadn’t realized how high I would have to go on the streets behind me to get away from street lights. Actually, never did. And my photos looked better in the camera than on screen. But It was a lovely walk in a very quiet neighborhood. The […]
Rocky Gateway Embedded with Sparkling Stones
Trying to recapture the feeling of peace found yesterday. Looking around my home at all the crystals that abide here, brought back the thoughts of sparking stoned embedded in the red boulders along the Crystal Valley Cemetery section of the Intermann Trail. I brought home a couple that were loose on the trail to add […]
Manitou Springs Cemetery has a Trail Head
Hiked among some Red Rock, but not at Red Rocks Canyon. My hiking buddy called this morning and suggested we take a hike I had mentioned before to her. It is one that begins in the Manitou Springs Cemetery instead of at Red Rocks Canyon. I haven’t hiked this trail in years and couldn’t remember […]
Frigid Walk to Commonwheel and recalling Intermann Trail
It was really foggy and frigid today in Manitou Springs. I did take a walk to Commonwheel Artists Gallery after getting my FantaFaces inventory photographed using my freezing front porch studio. I really hope it warms up early next week to get in a real hike without having to freeze my face, feet and hands. […]
Icy Intermann Trail with Friends on a Sunny Day
Took a walk/hike yesterday with my Greek friend. Not sure if it counted as a hike for this week. When we got to the beginning of a trail that is the start of more trails, we couldn’t hike on it. Didn’t look like even deer had traveled on it since the last snow. So we […]
Many Views of Pikes Peak from the Garden of the Gods
Beautiful Blue Sky Day at the Garden of the Gods! A little windy at times, but mostly just gorgeous weather for a hike on the Palmer Trail. I so needed a hike in the sunshine and this was a perfect day for that. A friend wants a picture of Pikes Peak on her web site […]
Quick Walk with My Greek Friend
The sun was out, after a brief wild windy and snowy weather moment today. First thing in the morning, I had been taking photos of my masks for my ETSY FantaFaces site on my outdoor photo studio area. I had just gotten everything inside when I heard this howling wind start. I turned around and […]
Horses in the Garden of the Gods
One never knows which creatures one will see on a hike. But it is almost a certainty to see horses on many of the trails in the Garden of the Gods. And if you don’t actually see the horses, you always must be careful where you step, because horses have been there and leave their […]
First Hike of 2014 in the Garden of the Gods
What is a Hike? Can it be a leisurely walk in Nature? Yes. And that was today’s Spirit Renewing Hike today. Still not to my healthy self, this cold just won’t let completely go! Still I took my first Hike of the year in the Garden of the Gods. It is sort of a tradition […]