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| Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains funnel the prevailing west winds to create the Great Sand Dunes. | ||||
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| Dew-covered firecracker flowers are like miniature trumpets. | ||||
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| The ghost town of Independence east of Aspen is still standing but some of it is standing on a slant. | ||||
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| Gentians bloom late in the summer, their flowers the color of the late summer sky. | ||||
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| By inverting a photo of a reflection and increasing contrast and saturation, a forest becomes a painting. | ||||
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| Minerals dissolved in rainwater leave stained streaks down the desert sandstone. | ||||
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| Purple veins direct pollinators to the center of mountain geranium blossoms. | ||||
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| Lava cliffs crumble under the constant onslaught of falling water. | ||||
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| Unfinished wood weathers into a variety of darker colors. | ||||
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| Dark purple Monk's Hood flowers are coated with dew early on a summer morning. | ||||
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| Wild Horse Butte babysits the myriad little gremlins of Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. | ||||
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| A marmot, who lives here year-round, doesn't seem as impressed with the scenery as the humans. | ||||
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| This iron-clad mill wheel at the Salman Ranch in New Mexico helped generate electricity and mill grain. | ||||
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| Pacific storms first hit the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, dropping lots of snow. | ||||
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| The pale pink blossoms of the spring beauty are so small that dew drops look like pearls. | ||||
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