COLORADO - ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH - IMAGES

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An initial posting of images captured during a visit to Colorado in June 2002.  Some of you with long memories and impressive attention spans may remember a number of these photographs from an original posting I made on an early incarnation of the popular AlpenPix….(another reminder of the wonderful achievements of Harry Dewey).  All the images were captured with a handheld 3.4 megapixel Nikon 995 digital camera and were taken in various locations throughout the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, while some of the cultivated iris photographs were taken in public gardens in the same area and in Kentucky.  The butterflies (early Xmas present for Anthony Darby perhaps) were in a live collection in the Cincinnati Botanic Gardens in Ohio.
More to follow when time and tide allow…..

Please do not pay TOO much attention to the titles of each picture....they were added in haste and will be regretted at leisure...

Some Calthas are Trollius and others are very loosely titled....they will all be corrected at the end....

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More from Colorado....

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....And a few more before the wine kicks in....

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....Just one more glass and a few more prods of this keyboard....

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...By the way....if you have seen them before then please hurtle on to the next topic....

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...Eyes getting blurred and finger getting sore, but I have started so I'll finish....

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....At last, a gorgeous Ranunculus....

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The last glass of wine and the last post for this evening....

The androsace was in the Betty Ford alpine garden....

Goodnight all .....Christmas Eve in the morrow.... more wine I suppose?   

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Cliff,
Nice to see that not everybody is only thinking of Christmas !
I'm sure I've seen some of these shots before, don't know where, don't know when but
super shots like this do deserve to be taken from under the dust every now and then !
Great show !!! Thanks a lot !

[Maggi Young]

What a lovely present for the Forum, Cliff! Just the thing to enjoy these summer blooms at this time of year.... you'll be making the Southern Hemisphere folks jealous!

[hadacekf]

Fantastic photos of plants. Thank you Cliff.

[Lesley Cox]

Great images as always Cliff. Eritrichiums to die for. Or dye for. If we in NZ were to introduce a little colour to Myosotis pulvinaris for instance.......

The butterflies are stunning and those really DO bring out my green tendancies (though we have Monarchs of course) but I may be able to show some rather good butterflies myself within a week or so.