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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Denver's Rossonian Hotel - Haven for Jazz Greats
Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Nat King Cole once played at this hotel's jazz club. Only their ghosts remain. Today the Rossonian sits silently near 27th and Welton in Denver's nearly forgotten Five Points neighborhood while Light Rail trains occasionally rumble past. But listen carefully as you walk by. You just might hear a saxophone, a piano or a melancholy voice.
"At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night." - Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Avalanche Creek
Avalanche Creek along the trail to Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park. Trail head is just off the Going to the Sun Road on the west side of Logan Pass.
Just Bite Him
A lineman tries to stop a fight between Edmonton Oilers' Mathieu Roy, top, and Colorado Avalanche's Ian Laperriere during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jimmy Jeong)
avalanche chutes
the Flickr member writes:
Berthoud Pass, Colorado. If my info is correct, this avalanche area is called Stanley and was the site of a large slide in January 2007 that buried two cars and eight people (who survived). Berthoud Pass is known for its slides.
US2 - Clearing the East Gaynor Avalanche
US2 - Clearing the East Gaynor Avalanche, originally uploaded by Washington State Dept of Transportation.
The Stevens Pass closure on Feb. 8 began with a snow slide about ten miles east of the summit in an avalanche zone that hasn’t been active since the 1970’s.
Gaynor #2 spilled more than 30 feet of snow across both lanes of the highway. Over the next 24 hours a second, larger slide came down from Gaynor #1, then a 200 by 35 foot slide came in three miles to the west of the summit from another long-inactive chute above Tunnel Creek. This was followed by an 18 foot deep snow slide covered both lanes above the East Portal of the BNSF Railroad tunnel. Finally, dozens of slides covered one or more lanes through a four mile section of Tumwater Canyon west of Leavenworth.
Canucks Avalanche Hockey
Colorado Avalanche center Peter Forsberg, of Sweden, takes the ice for the first time for the team since resigning with the Avalanche as Colorado prepares to host the Vancouver Canucks in an NHL hockey game in Denver on Tuesday, March 4, 2008. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Avalanche path at Lake 22
The Flickr member writes:
This is part of the avalanche path that killed a young girl at Lake 22 this winter.
seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/346232_avalanche05.html
This is a scary spot. There is a big rise above the trail with lots of trees that would make the novice snowshoer feel pretty safe. Beyond that a massive steep mountain with lots of loaded snow. This avalanche was surgical and deadly.
Taylor Avalanche Crown
Lower East face of Mt. Taylor, Teton Pass Wyoming.
Inspecting the crown of an Avalanche we set off with a cornice on a terrain tour.
HS-ACc-D3-R3-O
9185' 34 degree slope 47 cm Crown slid on buried surface hoar.
Avalanche
The Flickr member writes:
Three of my friends caught in an avalanche this weekend. Me and some more friends managed to ski out of it with our skins on... Pretty scary experience, but luckily all off them walked out of it with no damage. Ironicly we were on an avalanche workshop to learn how to avoid these experiences. We learnt much of this...
I say, "Those "hands-on" workshops are real doozies, eh?"
Avalanche lily
Avalanche lilies (Erythronium montanum) are only known to occur on Vancouver Island, the Mt. Waddington area of BC's coast range, the Olympic peninsula of Washington State and a segment of the Cascades between Mt. Raineer and Mt. Hood (endemic).
They are different from White fawn lilies in that they don't have mottling on the leaves and have more pronounced yellow centers. Also, they occur only in subalpine habitats. They are not the same thing as glacier lilies either, which have completely yellow flowers and occur over a wider range.
These ones were encountered in the ancient "snow forests" 1000 meters above the sea atop San Juan ridge on southern Vancouver Island.
*prints are for sale on etsy:
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16431610
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Amazing Streamline Building in Central Denver
omgosh! I can't believe how much they've rennovated and yuppified this upper LoDo neighborhood!
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About Me
- 2QTsInHeaven
- I'm Vickie, 51, married since 1985. We have a grown son, born in 1986, and aside from two early miscarriages, were barren thereafter. That is until 2003, when we were miraculously expecting a baby girl. The pregnancy was wonderful & we were very excited to be so blessed. Sadly & preventably, Abigail died in utero the week of her due date thanks to a practice of outlandishly horrid medical providers masquerading as knowledgeable professionals. Consequently, I delivered her lifeless body on December 6, 2003 after 3 days of sorrowed labor. She may have been born still, but she was still born & is still loved. Long story short, we were blessed 16 months later with a 3rd miracle child. Anne came into the world on April 28, 2005 after yet another wonderful pregnancy. Sadly, it was discovered after her birth that she had a heart defect caused by trisomy 18. She died suddenly of congestive heart failure, just before midnight on June 28, 2005. Anne was 61derful days old when she left her mama's arms & went to rest in the Lord's. She was a wonderful sparkly child, who along with her siblings, are the subject of most of my writings, interests & hobbies.
