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[rginn]

Strange the difference in the climate a couple thousand feet lower. Went down to Salida today where it was 55 and pretty much snow free. Lots of wind today. Saw a pretty cool sun dog south of Buena Vista and got a fair pic of it. Work sucks, but the first pick is the view we see everyday when we leave to go home, so that's somethin. Unless it's snowin too hard, of course.

 

[tamrock]

I'd be looking at the ground in that last picture. I see in your pictures why it was I moved from Leadville to BV. That's the old Calco plant. They processed the calcite from the mine up on Monarch pass. At one time they sent the iron pyrite to that plant from Climax to be refined in a way to sell to Coors and they used it to make the glass beer bottle brown by adding the pyrite. Climax pretty much recovered the Molybdenum free as all the byproducts such as copper, tungsten and other minerals paid to get the Moly out free of overhead cost. That's what they'd tell us anyways.

 

[rginn]

I intended to do a lot more lookin around, tr, but since I took the wife and her friend along it turned out my real purpose was to go to Walmart and take them to a restaurant for dinner, haha!

 

[worldtalker]

I'd say the water temp. is the same.

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[tamrock]

I intended to do a lot more lookin around, tr, but since I took the wife and her friend along it turned out my real purpose was to go to Walmart and take them to a restaurant for dinner, haha!

I understand, as I'm the only male in my immediate family of women. For even the son of man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom. Took me a while, but I finally got the gist on where I stand in this life.

 

[Cariboo5]

The one of the sun & clouds is simply "awesome"

 

[kcm]

They're ALL amazing RG, but I especially like the 1st and 3rd ones. Did you do some photo magic to get the clouds that way?

 

[rginn]

They're ALL amazing RG, but I especially like the 1st and 3rd ones. Did you do some photo magic to get the clouds that way?

Actually I had to work on that one a little. That sun dog was better looking and brighter in real life. It was like wow, pull off to the side of the road cool. Well to me anyway. But the pic I took came out washed out. So I used backlighting and upped the saturation to 70. It came out pretty close.

 

[tamrock]

Actually I had to work on that one a little. That sun dog was better looking and brighter in real life. It was like wow, pull off to the side of the road cool. Well to me anyway. But the pic I took came out washed out. So I used backlighting and upped the saturation to 70. It came out pretty close.

Looks like the clouds are made of Opel.

 

[kcm]

In any case, in MY humble opinion, that there's definitely a photo worthy of some sort of award!! I've never seen anything like it before. ...Don't think even my imagination is that vivid!

 

[rginn]

I've seen them like that several times up here kcm, and it's really hard to get a decent pic of them, so they look just like what you see. Maybe some kind of filter would help. Growing up in Oklahoma we would have smaller ones, and mom told me that meant we would get rain within a week. That was always true. Up here they apparently don't mean nothin, other than there's ice crystals in the clouds acting like a prism on the sunlight, I guess.

 

[kcm]

That's really cool. Can't help but wonder if it has anything to do with the high, steep mountain sides and the way sunlight reflects off of them - kind of a prism effect.

Up here, we have what I've heard is a fairly rare thing. When there are ice crystals in the air and the clouds and lighting are right, it looks like (3) suns in the sky. Only thing is, it isn't so rare up here I'm not outside all the time and have still seen this several times in the past few years. I'll try to find a pic later. ...I'll put it this way - it happens enough to where I no longer want to grab the camera!