
Chow down. Meow.

Chow down. Meow.

This variety of rose grows in the woods where we live. They bloom in July in the montane and when they’ve ripend they produce a crimson hip, plump and shiney.

This is the view out our western window…sorta.

Clean cat. Meow.

Just three trees in the late afternoon sun, washed and warmed by the horizontal light.

There’s and old, old apple tree at the Comanche Venable trailhead in Colorado. No one tends it now but the browsing deer. It’s grown scraggely and wide as the years pass. In spring its whitepink blooms billow in the montane sun. By September the fruit finally ripens to a sour, wormy greenred, hard and plump, abundant til they freeze and fall in the darkening days of autumn. The tree is a touchstone within my Rocky Mountain life.

Meow. Doze.

The hummingbirds are still here in the late September of the Colorado montane. The sits on the sill and chatters at them. The hummingbirds ignore nhim. Meow,

Veils of slumber, meow.

I walk in this montane woods. When the wind moves so do the trees, interacting with one another as the gusts direct, sorta choreographed, I think.


Plein Aire in Victor, Colorado, September 2019.

Painted at a Plein Aire event, Victor, CO.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/laundry/760060

This was painted at a plein aire event in Victpor Colorado. The elvation there is above 10,000 ft. The air is very clear and clean making the sky a brillient cerulean blue.

There’s been a lot of rain this summer, the farmers have mowed a couple times already. Late in the afternoon, sometimes towards evening, the clouds gather along the mountain ridge. When they hit the tops of the mountains they just dump all the moisture they hold. The sun shines through the veil of water and is quite lovely.

Relaxing on the kitchen floor…meow.

We up here to Goodwin Lake to fish in the summer. The elevation is about 11,200 ft. There’s deer and marmots there, eagles and crows. Elk are also around, but I’ve never seen one.
https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jean-krueger/goodwin-lake-colorado/759869

Summer time recreation includes camping. This site is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and it’s a National Parks Facility. Come visit someday, the natural beauty is stunning.

Colorado Blue Spruce thrives in the Colorado montane where we spend summers. The tree is making a comeback after having been severely attacked by a beetle that plagued the species ten or more years ago. They grow tall an thick, their neighbors are the ponderosa and fir trees in the area in which we live. Their foliage is a light turquoise mixed with deeper blue greens, the needles are short and quite densely spaced.