Category Archives: At Home in Denver & the Rockies

It might be home, but I’m still wandering

Barr Lake State Park — Colorado

Posted on December 22, 2020 by mlgray

Nature Photo Journal #5 This area has long been a favorite place of mine to wander. The start to the winter season, particularly stunning on this sunny day, offered some fun opportunity to explore the shore. Though the water level … Continue reading →

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Rocky Mountain Lake Park – Denver, CO

Posted on December 13, 2020 by mlgray

Nature Photo Journal #4 I feel incredibly fortunate to live across the street from this lake. Though tucked up snug against I70, ducks arrive throughout the winter and nature emerges in every corner.

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Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge – Denver, CO

Posted on December 6, 2020 by mlgray

Nature Photo Journal #3 From landscape to detail, and animals on the roam, this is a wild place in the middle of urbanity …

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St. Louis Creek – Fraser, CO

Posted on November 29, 2020 by mlgray

Nature Photo Journal #2 This is a beautiful spot that Brennan and I have been exploring in every season. There are gaps between the rush of bicycling and cross-country skiing to see the details in the landscape … Ice and … Continue reading →

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Wander from Home

Posted on June 9, 2014 by mlgray

Virtues of Travel: Part 6 Spring is a stunning time in Denver … crisp mornings alter between hot and mild days, afternoons fill with rain and thunderstorms, and evening brings perfect sunsets over the Rocky Mountains.  We take to the … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Journey

Posted on January 11, 2014 by mlgray

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of That Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek … Continue reading →

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Additional Baby B Photos

Posted on January 10, 2014 by mlgray

This gallery contains 7 photos.

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Thoreau

Posted on January 5, 2014 by mlgray

If a man walks in the woods for his love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods … Continue reading →

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Nature.

Posted on November 26, 2013 by mlgray

Thoreau’s Walden, Muir’s Mountains of California, Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and most recently, Brower’s Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run… I’ve been on a kick lately of reading authors’ intimate portrayals of their time in the natural world and the … Continue reading →

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Travel Impressions, Distinctly Modern

Posted on July 14, 2013 by mlgray

Though I’ve now done this drive across California to Colorado more than a dozen times, nothing beats the thunderstorms that roar over the San Rafael Swell in the middle of nowhere, Utah. Each adventure across the 1000 miles that wander … Continue reading →

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