Living in Colorado is a bit weird, because it’s easy to overlook a lot of the natural beauty you see every day and it just becomes part of the background.
Every once in a while I’ll be running an errand and will have to pause for a second and just go “holy shit, the mountains look gorgeous today.”
This is why part of me thinks its honestly better to live close to mountains not by them.
I want to keep them special, something that sparks that child like wonder inside when I see them.
Not American – can someone explain the state of Colorado to me? It looks like your own little Switzerland
The eastern half is flat and empty. The western half is mountainous like Switzerland, but also pretty empty. Most of the people live in a strip of cities along the foothills.
The mountains are impressive and the elevation gets nearly as high as the highest point in the alps. What’s weird about Colorado is that even the lowest elevation areas are really high up. Denver is at the base of the mountains, but is at 5280ft/1610m. For comparison, most of Switzerland’s cities are below 1500ft/500m.
Damn, that really is high
Less chocolate. More weed. Otherwise accurate.
Magic can appear in the most mundane of places if you look for it.
Try their jalapeno cheese dip and you’ll meet the gods. Then tell us that place is mundane.
Edit: I’m assuming whoever took this pic was going in for that dip.
When I visited the Grand Canyon, I set up my tripod so I could take a timelapse of the sunset. I figured it would be amazing in that setting.
And… it was just like the first picture. Mild, delicate colors, nothing like what I was hoping for. Though if you like watching the shadows grow and move over the canyon, it’s still good for that.
I suppose the hidden bonus was that by having my phone sitting on the tripod for hours, it meant I spent that time enjoying the scenery and talking to fellow travelers, which was cool.
Air pollution makes sunsets more red
The difference? Photoshop.
Na, I live here. It just be like this
This happens all over the Southwest, it really depends on patchiness of cloud cover. Amazing sunsets don’t care if you’re in the parking lot of Wal-Mart or out somewhere with trees.
