Pumphorse: Dacono, CO

Pumphorse & Rocky Mountain Front Range: Dacono, CO

Front Range

Rocky Mountain Front Range, from Dacono, Colorado

Rocky Mountain Front Range

On Final Approach

A bee gets ready to descend onto flowers of Bell’s Twinpod north of Boulder. (Photo: © Tom Yulsman)

The bees have been out in force in the warm, sunny weather we’ve been experiencing along Colorado’s Front Range. This guy is hovering above some blooming Bell’s twinpod near Boulder. This exceedingly rare plant exhibits extreme endemism, growing on a handful of shale slopes along the Front Range of Colorado, and nowhere else.

A bumble bee at the same spot. (Photo: © Tom Yulsman)

With the emergence of flowers after weeks of repeated snowstorms, bumble bees were also out and about. This fine specimen (perhaps a queen?) is a member of the Hunt’s bumblebee tribe (or the Bombus huntii species, to be more scientifically precise).

Upstairs Downstairs

A lenticular cloud catches fire over Colorado’s Front Range. (Image: copyright Tom Yulsman)

I’ve got a new outlet for my photography: the ImaGeo blog at Discover magazine.

Pit D

This lake is labeled “Pit D” on maps. I hope that keeps people away so I can continue to have this secret place all to myself.

Take us to your leader

Lenticular clouds, often looking like flying saucers, may form as moist air flows over a mountain range. Here, lenticulars have formed on the downwind side of the Front Range near Boulder. (This photo took 6th place in Digital Photography Review’s Aleatoric Forms: Open Subjects from Abstract Mediums challenge.)