First Snow - Flurries with Ice

Last night was the first snow of the new season in Fort Collins. It was snowing when I left to go to work at 10 PM last night and snowed until I got past Loveland on I-25. Just glad the DOT was not out in force doing road construction like they have been doing for the last two weeks. The roads were actually in great shape, nothing was sticking to the roads, but I know that I need to go to Home Depot or Lowes and get some weight to put in the bed of the truck to weigh the back end of the truck down some. It has a really bad tendency to try to come around or go where it wants to go. So much torque available, it is touchy in the winter.

Me and a MAC

Oh how I want an Apple MAC, specifically a 24" iMAc. Nothing fancy just the base system. I can add RAM and can use external drives for more data drive and even connect to my Windows network for the network shares. I need this MAC so I can make slideshows and movies for Christmas and to further my photography to the next level. It has every thing I need to do the projects I want to do and I have the software to install for my photography.

Fall Colors

Taken before peak color down along Ohio Creek road in Gunnison County of Colorado with my D2x and a Nikon 70-300 VR.


Taken with a D2x and Tokia 12-24 along Hwy 135 from Gunnison to Crested Butte. It was great day to take pictures.

Picture using the new Sigma Lens

I should have posted this a long time ago, but it has been a busy time and everything. But anyway I just love this new lens. Those was taken with the new lens on a Nikon D2x in RMNP last month during the elk rut.

Same bull but just a lot closer. Massive rack and a mean sucker too.


Such a nice couple.

Housing Crisis and These Damn Bailouts

I am sick and tired of hearing about all the bailout plans for people who are losing their homes due to foreclosure. I have been trying to and want to buy a house. Need to buy a house for tax purposes and just because I want to own a house. I make a good salary and everything, but because of other people and their GREED, people that want to buy a house or a condo are screwed. Just reading on CNN of another proposal by one of the so called candidates for Prez and the article stated that someone working two jobs and busting his butt to pay his mortgage should just quit making his payments so he could take advantage of the proposed bailout.

Don't get me wrong, some people out there got screwed by greedy mortgage brokers and bankers when they refinanced their homes and now they are losing those homes, some of which have been in the family for years. My grief is towards all the folks out there that bought houses that they could not ever afford and some that never even made payments on the houses know full well that they would not make payments on the houses and then you have the investor flippers, bought the houses and then boosted the prices so high trying to make a big profit. This did nothing but cause the whole market to self inflate to unrealistic prices and not true market prices (ie. what the houses were really worth). Now everyone for the most part are losing their shirts and in some cases even their bras and panties too on their houses.

Some where it has got to end and bailouts of the banks and the CEO who are getting their big bonuses for driving this in to the ground is not the answer. Put the money in the hands of the American people and let us buy these properties that we desire. It puts money back into the system and gets the system rolling again. And oh by the way, if you are a wetback illegal from Mexico or any other country, just leave your house and the keys to it at the under the door mat and go back to the rock that you came from in Mexico or one of those Central America countries. I do not want you here, nor your children or your mom and dad or uncles and aunts, cousins. You are a big part of the problem too. You have no right to here and should just go back the way you came here.