Fire Point overlook Colorado               click to enlarge

We’ve been getting these snow storms every week or so and one of the perks of living in Colorado is that as soon as they’re over they agreeably begin to melt away and return our landscape to its regular appearance.

This storm came in Saturday night wreaking havoc with the highways, causing white outs and icy conditions and generally making one glad they were inside by the fire eating large plates of spaghetti.

The next day however, true to form, the storm broke, the sun came out and soon it was so beautiful even the most die-hard slug had to go out and work off those plates of spaghetti. Slogging through the snow with a ton of camera gear will help with that.

This is a panoramic* view of the North fork of the Cache la Poudre river drainage area as the storm clouds begin to drift East with plans to visit our Midwest friends. Sorry about that folks. We tried to siphon off as much snow as we could before sending them your direction.

As winter winds down and we get these spring snow storms they are usually pretty intense. Lots of weather drama while they’re happening but the aftermath is gorgeous especially knowing that the sun will be out tomorrow and as pretty as it is, it will be gone in a day or so. I like to think that these are our Camelot snows.

* This image is made up of 16 pictures carefully stitched together by the elves in Photoshop for your viewing pleasure. We do this because if we used a wide angle lens the image would be like looking into the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. Everything would be very small but there’d be lots of it. This is better.