Ski Day

I went snowboarding yesterday up at Durango Mountain Resort. It was my first time this season and needless to say I am a bit sore!

Cat's Eye

 a close up of my cat, Molly.

Red-Tailed Hawk

Yesterday, while doing dishes, my Significant Other looked out the window and spied something flying by. It didn't look like a typical Magpie or a Gilded Flicker, both common birds in our area this time of year. I got out my camera and trained my lens on this beautiful raptor, a Buteo jamaicensis, also known as a Red-Tailed Hawk or Chickenhawk. These birds are common to our area, but I rarely get a chance to see one, and this is the first time ever that I have been able to get a picture of one. Even though he was at least 140 meters away, I was able to snap these pictures with my new camera.

Flowing

In this tight area just south of historic downtown, the flow of traffic on Hwy 550/160 and the flow of the Animas River is compressed against the train yard to the north and Smelter mountain on the south.

Sun rise with the Strater

 I was walking to work the other morning and captured this view of the historic Strater Hotel as the sun was coming over Raiders Ridge behind me. I love how Perins Peak on the horizon is one of the first landforms to capture light from the sun as it rises in the mornings.

A look at the Needles

A long view to the north, where the Needle Mountain Ranges rise to 13,000' above sea level. I took this picture from The Lion's Den structure near the Hillcrest Golf Club in Durango. The mountains are about 30 miles north of Durango

FLC Sunset

I was walking home through the Fort Lewis College campus yesterday evening and caught this view of the sunset near the new athletic fields recently built there. The prominent cuesta on the horizon is one of my favorite landforms in the area. It is Carbon Mountain, part of the infamous Moving Mountain ridgeline  near to Lake Nighthorse

Silver Mountain

 Silver Mountain is one of the more prominent peaks of the La Plata Mountains seen from Durango. As its name suggests, it was found to host veins of the precious metal. While mining of the mountain is now a thing of the past, one may still find traces of galena, lead, pyrite and traces of gold and silver in the mountain.

Resting Doe

I caught this mule deer doe taking a rest at the small park down my street.

New Year Moon

The moon as seen on the morning of Dec 31st, 2013

Last Post

This is the end of Durango Daily Photo. Thanks for visiting!

*Edit December 28th, 2013: I've recently received a new camera and I'm thinking of starting this blog back up again on the 1st of the New Year. Stay tuned! 

It must be Spring

Yesterday, it seemed as though half of Arizona was drifting through the skies. Then today we wake to dirty snow. That's Colorado in April for you.

I am Lichen this

Xanthoria elegans, the Elegant Sunburst Lichen. 

Raiders Ridge Panorama

Piñon skies

Bamboo

 

A cool fence I noticed on 5th St.

Rio Los Piños

The Pine River as it flows near Bayfield, Colorado. Looks like it will be another low flow summer.

"L" is for The Leland House

"The Pittman Apartments, built in 1927 by Durangoan P.W. Pittman, were purchased from Leland and Lola Hill in 1993. The building was renamed The Leland House in honor of the Leland Hill family, who had owned the property since 1947. Each room in the Leland House is named after an historic Durango figure and the interior décor is accented with local memorabilia, biographies, and photos of these important figures. The builder, P.W. Pittman, was not forgotten; his name dons the large family suite located upstairs in the Leland House."

ABC Wednesday for April 3rd, 2013. Please visit http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/  to view more participants.

*Information on the Leland House taken from The Leland House & Rochester Hotel website.

Down at the railyard

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