catzz66 said:Quoted message said:Caution: increasingly gruesome pictures.
Where were these taken? Do you know?
Dear C,
Why, yes, I do!
[I feel the hook, but I can't resist the troll . . .]
The juniper and cottonwood country, up the Arkansas river. Prairie
bluffs with mountain views up on top, cliffs and level shale terraces
with junipers running down gullies in the middle, and cottonwood river
scenery down below.
Specifically, I took the picture at the top of the south end of the
dam at Pueblo, Colorado, looking northeast across the Arkansas River
toward Baculite Mesa. The river and its trees are mostly hidden in the
picture, down in the valley.
More specifically, here's my daily ride, which starts and ends at the
tiny red tail on the right. The yellow arrow on the left shows the
spot where the snake met its end and the direction of the view:
http://i19.tinypic.com/4kynamo.jpg
Here's a photo of the same grisly scene looking south toward the
nearby bluffs.
http://i14.tinypic.com/664vnfq.jpg
Starting point for true map fiends:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=14&Z=13&X=164&Y=1323&W=3
Go west one panel up the river. This is the view looking south up Rush
Creek, on the south side of the Arkansas under "Denver" on the
railroad line:
http://i5.tinypic.com/4ly75z9.jpg
The Greenhorn is the snowy mountain on the left, and the Snowslide is
the snow streak on the right, the main landmarks on the Wet Mountains.
Gratuitous pelican flying over reservoir, looking north from the south
bluffs:
http://i1.tinypic.com/4qoihb5.jpg
In the picture above, the very faint blue hill on the very left is
forty miles away, next to Colorado Springs, and climbs up to Pikes
Peak.
Here's a view of Pikes Peak across the dam, half a mile from snake
scene:
http://i6.tinypic.com/5xrawbr.jpg
Better view of Pikes Peak, looking across prairie bluff and across
Arkansas valley:
http://i19.tinypic.com/4xvo7qv.jpg
Ignoring distant mountains, here's a typical gully with three deer:
http://i13.tinypic.com/4ou6fkg.jpg
Same gully, lower down. The water is flowing toward the camera down
the shallow rock terraces and vanishing into the fractured shale creek
bed:
http://i12.tinypic.com/6b3gh03.jpg
River, bare cottonwoods, bluffs:
http://i13.tinypic.com/4tqtzyx.jpg
Other than that, it's pretty flat and featureless around here, except
for occasional antelope herds and hawks flying off the fence like
this:
http://i15.tinypic.com/5x3gs21.jpg
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
