I used to really love doing these photo challenges. I saw this one, #whiteiswhitechallenge by @dmcamera. I've been looking for the contest rules and parameters but going to
@dmcamera's blog, I am not finding it!
So I'm guessing it is about 'white' things, in nature? I will keep looking...
But I have a good photo to share. A couple of them actually. In snow.
This was taken in Hartsel, Colorado in ... let me think. 2008?
It was in my front yard, fairly soon after we moved in to an off - grid home in a very isolated spot in Central Colorado. It is an intense place where the ravages of nature take their toll. It is common for people there to live off the grid. Life there is harsh and yet amazingly beautiful and different from your average human residential location. That year the snow got deep, so deep that the cars were locked out of our land on the road just outside the fence barrier, for months. There was no way to drive them through it.
See?
That was a clipping from a local newspaper, not my vehicle.
Here's a view of the house! From the backside. Passive solar greenhouse intact, my favorite part.
Here's another view of the house, our front porch and a clear view of a good portion of South Park. Complete with the long shadows of sunset.
So I said I had a couple of photos to share for the contest, this is the other one. This was taken outside of Victor, Colorado a few years later. It was just outside of the boundary for the local cemetery. Victor and Cripple Creek, Colorado's claim to fame is its mining history. My friend Gerry told me that at one point, many people had been buried outside the boundary and there was some kind of team, possibly from a local chapter of the Colorado Historical Society? That took some scientific equipment (I don't know, radar or something like metal detectors?) and went over the land surrounding the cemetery and identified as many of these old gravesites as they could find. The little crosses were permanently placed to mark them.
Happy Saturday!
LR 5/12/2018