Pink Flamingos at the Aspen round-about

A little spot of snow, upper left, on Tiehack.  That ski area of Buttermilk was named for the railroad workers who installed train tracks...ie A person who installed railroad "ties".
The flamingos are an annual event to raise money for the school system.

Update...As of 10/31 all the Flamingos were gone...Either someone stole them or they took them down because they were not there tonight for Halloween.  The Flamingo event is scheduled for 11/2.

First Snow Storm of the Season!

NOT BLACKBERRY BUT SOMEONE BIGGER, MUCH BIGGER!

The beginning is a little slow and I'll probably edit it when I have more time, but for now, your patience will be rewarded.

NO YOKE!

The story behind this is that the Republican headquarters has been getting "egged" every night by vandals so they decided to turn the situation around and have fun with it!

Turns out the egg throwing was caused by 5 eighth graders, 2 which were siblings.  Their Mom put 2 + 2 together when they were found giggling over the newspaper article and were promptly marched down to the Sheriffs station to confess.  Yeah Mom! 

FRC's!!

Free Range Cows....


We made a Costco run to Vail  a while  ago via Cottonwood Pass and ran into this herd along and on the road.  Cottonwood Pass can be done in a car if it has relatively high clearance.  Not scary at all except at a couple one lane hair pin turns with nowhere to go but down for about a 1/3 mile.  Way down!  This is actually a graded and maintained the dirt road.  Then you get on a real dirt road which we don't have a picture of..




No Free Range Chickens to be found!

A visit to the wildlife rehabilitation center

One of three Bobcats in permanent residence.  As former "pets" they cannot be released back to the wild.

A 6 month old baby bear whose Momma was killed in a car accident.  The center will him keep him awake all winter as he doesn't have enough fat to survive hibernation.  He will be released next year.

A silver fox and his red fox pen buddy.  Both were pets; the silver fox is thought to have been a pet brought to Colorado from Alaska and then the owner learned wild animals were not allowed, as he had a collar on when found roaming the streets.  There were also mountain lions, fawns, eagles, owls, coyote and wolves either as permanent residents or due to be released upon completion of their rehabilitation.  The animals being rehabilitated "came" to the center with injuries, were found as babies alone and scared, or abandoned.