Gregory J Scott, Colorado July 2003
Copyright 2003 Gregory J. Scott

Rocky Mountain National Park

Double rainbow at Chimney Rock at sunset, with a passing storm. One of the few times we had any "weather". Very few clouds the whole time.


Aluvial Fan - This shot was intended to show the view down this mountain, and up the Aluvial fan to the top of the next mountain. You can just make out the whitewater in the boulder field ijust above the wide delta of the fan.
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Happy columbine flower in the mountains, near Rainbow curve.


Female Broad-tailed hummingbird in the yard outside of our cabin.

Male Broadtail hummer



Broadtail Jam - A fight developing, or at least a traffic jam.


Pike's Peak


Potentilla fruticosa -- Shrubby Cinquefoil


(Alpine?) Wild Geranium


Primula angustifolia -- Alpine primrose


Snowy Ravine near the safety-check, half-way up pike's peak


Cliff, near same location.


Same cliff, a little lower


Flower: Unknown variety of Penstemon


Aster


Closer Aster

Flowers in Colorado Springs Zoo

Red Hot Poker


-- Spiraea japonica -- butterflies like it.


Probably a Gooseberry tree/bush


Tentative ID: Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium, aka Rosebay Willowherb


Possible ID: Helenium -- Sneezeweed, Helen's flower


Garden of the Gods from a distance


Asclepias speciosa - Showy Milkweed or Greek Milkweed


Michael P. Scott bouldering


Being next to a road is hard luck for a tree.


Looking back at Garden of the Gods spires from the spine of the dragon.