Nature's Exhibit.... A Colorado Fall

The "Fall" season has always been my favorite time of year here in Colorado.  Now, Colorado is a beautiful state year round, but, something about Fall being in the air in Colorado seems to bring out the best that nature has to offer all of us who are lucky enough to be here during this time.

Now I love this time of year for various reasons.  This guy and our team being one of the main things I can't wait until each Fall season comes around.  Go, Bronco's!

However, I want to focus on the things that make the Colorado Fall season just as spectacular and meaningful too me, as  is my love for the Bronco's.

Brown Trout have always had a place in my heart.  From a beautiful small stream Brown like this one to gargantuan size Browns in other areas of Colorado.  Brown Trout have my attention come Fall.  There are some beautiful spots on the Big Thompson River that I like to go to challenge a Brown Trout when I can.

Hello, Estes Park, Colorado.  Is this not a beautiful setting for the Fall season.  The wildlife, the outdoors, the waters, surround you.  Take it all in.  You won't for get it.  While you are out and about in the Estes Park or Rocky Mountain National Park nearby, be sure and listen for another of my favorite Fall wildlife friends.

This big guy coming ashore after a refreshing time in the water made for a great camera opportunity.  Fishing can wait.....................

Here is another big guy who is out for a morning stroll.  Make sure you stay focused on the road while driving and maintain a cautious speed.  This is up close and personal enough!

If you have never heard the "Call" of the Elk, you are truly missing one of Colorado's wildlife treasures.  I listen in awe!  I can't explain it in words, you just have to be here to know what I am talking about.

The colors of Fall be they, Yellow, Gold, Red, Green, Blue are spectacular.  Fall foliage is spectacular, too! Sorry, I did not take pictures for this post to show.  Maybe, more to come.......

As a final note here, be aware that just because you live in one of Colorado's Front Range communities, doesn't mean that the wildlife don't come to pay a visit this time of year.  They make their way around to handle their life needs.  Be cautious.  Here are a couple of pictures from my close neighborhood in Loveland just this Fall.

"Looks like it is about time for me to s-c-a-t-"

This fella' wandered into my apartment complex while headed to the Big Thompson River beds

 

***Just want to do the obligatory reminder here that all of my pictures posted here are easily viewed and easier to see when double clicked for a closer view.

 

Thanks for allowing me to share Nature's exhibit here in a typical Colorado Fall.....................

 

 

 

Prospective New Neighbor............

One of the benefits of living in Loveland, Colorado, is its close vicinity to the Big Thompson River canyon, Estes Park, and Rocky Mountain National Park. A short drive puts you into some of the most awesome country an outdoors enthusiast could want.  I am not going to go into promoting this any more in this post, that has been well done by other writers and bloggers for quite some time.

What I would like to share with this post is the day to day adventure that comes in our local neighborhood when someone new comes too town.  Or, even when someone comes to tour your neighborhood in hopes of becoming a new tenant.  On Wednesday evening, Diane and I, went our for our normal evening walk.  It is a routine we follow most every evening and also in the morning right after our first cup of coffee.  Anyway, our route in our neighborhood is always the same.  Like clockwork, we have a certain distance we walk to meet our health needs.

Well, on this particular evening we were surprised to meet a prospective new neighbor just as we started out our walk.

Note: Don't forget to double click on the picture to enlarge

How many new prospective neighbors let you take a picture of them right when you first meet them?  How many prospective new neighbors let you ooh and ahh at them and their values of what they bring to the neighborhood and don't talk back too you? How many new neighbors leave you alone as long as you don't irritate them or stick your nose in their business?

The new neighbor allowed us to do all of the above and then sauntered on down the sidewalk crossed the street and ventured off into the trees in the direction of another neighborhood.  

Keep in mind that I don't live in a really rural area.  We live just south of the middle of downtown Loveland!  Amazing where new neighbors will go and to what extent to check out the life in the neighborhood where you live....................

Such is life in "Happy Valley", U.S.A.