This is another in the clouds and sky series that I decided to select and edit. I always zero in on weird sky and cloud scenes even if it wise to keep eyeball track of where I’m treading. I can see that this is another cirrus cloud that has trouble being serious. It almost looks like cirrus clouds are leap-frogging over heavier cumulo-numbnuz. I’m thankful that the sky is still blue, considering the Trump Crime Family and his scurrilous appointees who are in charge. If only Trump were simply a complete idiot! Our Rockies air is generally clean and still free. Longmont’s water tumbles from the Continental divide and is captured before many can even get close. Even Rick Snyder could not slip any lead into the St. Vrain. Other than that, we always flush to Omaha and St. Louis.
I got turned around from my genealogical retouching when I came upon the McIntosh sky when looking for recent shots. I still keep hammering at retouching those edits that sit in my Photoshop. Otherwise, I got stuck in McIntosh’s great sky shot and found more in my McIntosh edit directory so I’m posting this series of clouds and sky while I work on my load of other edits. These are relatively easy retouches that often use but one layer.
I had to wait for the kiddies and moms to clear before capturing this shot above the horizon. The crowd was a bit much for a weekday and even highway #66 seemed overloaded with travelers and RVs probably on their way up to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. I appreciated the way the sky was beginning to display in a strange spray on the wide angle shots. On the right hand side of the frame is the new stock shed where they are housing the ponies and pigs while pasture is on the left hand. There are several exhibits that are a delight for the kiddies no doubt.
In any case, I planned to trek out here on this Friday when they announced possible showers and when I saw the morning clouding coming around, I bailed. This is the McIntosh-Lohr Farm Agricultural Museum on Highway #66, (not the same route #66). I had by now dropped everything else. Though the clouding having been absent recently, they really popped the structures today but I still had to wait for the chickens to cross the road before they allowed me passage. That day served up a sprinkle and they promised 92 the next day. Keep editing in the cool, I guess. I am spending extra time on the best of the captures considering the abundant skies.
I was just in time for the sky. I looked out of my window and jumped up, gathered my camera and split. I scored shots out here some years ago but the sky was a dud and I was using my old D70. The farm/museum is part way between Largemont and Hygiene, Colorado. Today, I can afford the time to stop and look (it was my race on debt for being there) over the old shots I ought to have spotted before. I bet though I’d better manage it in an hour or two. They have added and new venues and I am in a wandering mood. Here is one of my early results. The day would later collapse to overcast, allowing time to start editing. There COULD be some time involved in editing. After I boiled the layers down to a TIFF, I finally managed to take out two of the overly massive BoCo eyesore signs but someone might remind them that kid’s eyesight is usually excellent but most of the kids here today couldn’t read yet. There was virtually NO information on the supposed BoCo website. BoCo has gone far overboard on touchy-feely apparently. Mostly they buy leftover gravel pits for the BoCo aggressive, un-open space campaign to pound money into holes! I expect someone over their is trying to build an aggressive mosquito rearing program when the holes fill with water.
