Photo Monday: Appreciation for Mountain Living

We were fortunate to not have the fires get too close to our home although it was a nerve-wracking week.  The fire is almost 100% contained and even though it reached nearly 80 degrees on Saturday…up here…at 8,300′…in March…we are due to get some snow today which we hope will stop the fire completely and to allow those in our community who are still evacuated to get back into their homes.

With that in mind, I wanted to share some love for mountain living.  Even though it carries the risk of wildfires, the surrounding beauty and tranquility of the mountains makes it worth the risk.

Although the warm, sunny weather has been lovely, I’m hoping that by tomorrow morning, this will be the view off our back deck again.  God knows we need the moisture.

Good Monday morning to you all.

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Daily Zen: Sunshine

So we’re still under a blanket of snow, but wanted to send some sunshine your way.  I have tons of flower photos, so I better start sharing! (p.s. anyone know what kind of flowers these are?)

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Daily Zen: top of the world (well, not exactly)

We’re fortunate enough to live close enough to Mt. Evans which has the highest paved road in North America (you can drive to the top of the 14,000+ foot mountain!); it’s a great place to visit and the trip up the actual road can mean starting off in lush, green forests at the base to snow capped mountains at the top.  Since the high volume of snow means that this road is only open from June – September, we can only visit during the summer and once we actually got caught in a snow storm up there during the month of August (when it’s usually 100 degrees in Denver!).

Anyhow, mountain goats love to call this place home and you can expect to see them when you visit, so the shot above is just one of a few I’ve captured during our visits there.

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Daily Zen: It’s all green

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Daily Zen: Frosted Trees

I have so much photography I’ve never shared here and because nature photography is a passion of mine and I don’t have time to manage a shop dedicated to my photos, I might as well share them here and give you some daily zen.  Some days I’ll give you a back story, others, I’ll just post the photo.

So on this frigid day I’ll post a pic of frost covered trees I captured in Aspen a couple of years ago while waiting for hours in 19 degree weather for the sun to rise on the Aspen peaks.  Enjoy from afar and stay warm!

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Friday Shop(S) Update!

So it’s been a busy week but I was able to get a lot accomplished on the shop(s) front.

Let me first introduce you to my two new shops:

Green Earth Images (listed as GreenEarthImages on Etsy) – as mentioned before I had a separate web site but decided to move it over to Etsy; it’s slow going to get things listed, but I’m selling prints, matted prints, magnet, ACEO’s, greeting cards and bookmarks (and anything is customizable for the most part, so if you see an image you’d like, I can make it into the items just listed – because to make a listing for each item x100+ photos would mean 800 or so listings and that’s just crazy!); here are some of the pics I’ve loaded up so far (trying to make it a mix of different scenes):

j.c.spock (listed as jcspock on Etsy) – I realized that I should make a separate shop for my artwork since it really is different from my goodies shop and though I do print on eco-friendly photo paper and card stock for greeting cards, ACEO’s (Art Card Editions and Originals – they’re the trading card equivalent in the art industry), magnets and bookmarks, the bigger prints are on professional (not eco-friendly) photo paper, regular mats for matted prints and regular canvas (though I’m pricing out eco-friendly canvas that I recently found).  Furthermore, I felt I needed to lend my name to my artwork and since my full name is hyphenated and so dang long, I shortened it (not to mention that my nickname in college and thereafter by my friends was j.c).  Similar to my photography shop, I can customize items, so if you like an image but want it in another format, I can usually do that no problem.  Here are some examples:

Woo!  It’s been crazy!

Then I’ve added a couple items to my Green Earth Goodies shop and Green Earth Supplies shop, like these:

As I’ve mentioned, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fall and Halloween, so I’m happy crafting this stuff…more to come!

Thanks for checking out my shops!  Have a great weekend everyone!

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