A Stone Sculptor and Banker Mason with 20 years of experience and an NVQ Level 2 from the City of Bath College, England, I live and carve at 8,000 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
The month of May can often prove a most perplexing time here in Woody Creek. At 7,300 feet, with a nippy spring breeze still calling the shots, the difference between a full-blown blizzard and a light shower may be measured in a few miles, or a couple of minutes, whichever way you wish to look at it.
Weather patterns in this part of the Colorado Rocky Mountains tend to be very localized indeed… just ask Ellie↑
Overall though it must be said that this has been one heck of a cold wet spring.
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April
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Its a strange phenomenon but around these parts its not unknown for the seasons to stall so badly as to actually switch into reverse.
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Thinking back to the end of April we enjoyed some quite lovely weather.
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So mild was it that a rare Rocky Mountain Ring O Rabbits was spotted at one point.
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Days were sunny, almost balmy. Even Kris was impressed. Surely now we had escaped the long icy reach of winter.
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One man who should know just where we stand with Ol’ Mother Nature is Green Man.
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Not forgetting Elky of course.
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“Oh Green One, all Knowledgeable, all Clairvoyant, What Will Be Our Fate?”
“Show Us, Oh Spirit of the Wood.”
“Give us a sign”
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May
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It’s been much the same story all month.
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May 10
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and now
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Before we part ways, and as its been a while since my last post, I would like to use this opportunity to announce to the world just how proud my son Joseph made me when he recently turned 21.
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Here Joseph, Kris and I partake in a quaint local alpine custom to celebrate the occasion, and while I don’t recommend you try this at home I can say (my own Planet of the Ape impersonation aside) I quite enjoyed the absurdity of it all: its called a ‘Shot Ski’.
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Joseph Parker Cooney
( J. P. C o o n e y II )
21 Years of Age
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What an Altogether Swell Guy
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Until next time… Thanks for stopping by !
All the best, Martin
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Photographs "capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” Ansel Adams
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