Another cold windy day and I spent a good part of it out in the elements! Now I’m cold to the bone and I can’t seem to get warm. The furnace keeps coming on but it doesn’t seem to help so maybe some hot chocolate will help boost my core body temperature 🙂 Have to say though, looking back it was a pretty good day except for the 45 minutes or so on top of Tenderfoot Pass with no coat on trying to unlock my truck with a stick through a partially open window. Yup, in my excitement to jump out and get a picture I managed to lock myself out. Big Dog was just sitting there looking at me like I was nuts 🙁
Got in a good hike on this beautiful Colorado winter day and I also got to shoot these awesome bighorn sheep! I’ve been waiting a long time to get a shot of the big dude… I have had occasion to photograph the younger smaller ones but not the big guy. I’ve seen him a few times but never in position to be able to get a good picture.
It was also entertaining to watch the youngsters running around on the side of the cliff. They seemed to be having fun, kind of reminded me of when I was a kid doing some stupid thing like building a huge jump at 
the bottom of the lake bank for our toboggan jump! We knew we were going to have a spectacular crash… the worse the better! We would play in zero degree weather on our Christmas break until we were absolutely frozen at which time we would adjourn to our friend’s grandmother’s house for hot chocolate and Yahtzee until we were warm enough to go back at it again!
I was amazed that the elusive beasts didn’t run away today, they just kept playing while the head sheep kept a wary eye on me. Up and down the mountainside they went… and I just stood there and filled my memory card until I was sure I had “the shot”.
I was on the west side of the mountainside as the sun was rising in the east so I could have used better lighting, but I’m still happy with what I was able to capture. As always, these images and more are for sale as wall art and cool gift and household items on my website! You can find these in my new “Bighorn Sheep and Mountain Goat” gallery!
