Look around you.

I have to say that I love Colorado.  It's February with new snow in the mountains and 70 down here where I live.  You really can't get much better than that.  Kelly and I really haven't posted much recently and well we feel that we are letting down our adoring public all two of you...hehe

I honestly can't recall if I've mentioned this before, and I'm too lazy to search, but we live near a bald eagle preserve.  They usually stay put in their small portion on the world ignoring the rest of us mortals.  So we live, work and go to school. In fact this is my drive to work:

Not much of a drive I know. Looking at the image you believe that I live in the middle of know where far from the thralls of civilization. Don't be fooled.  Just over that ridge and a mere four miles from my house is one of the larger malls in Denver Metro area.  If you would turn your head to the right, metaphorically, you would see a golf course.  1 of 3 withing 3 miles of my house.   But i digress. 

On my way to work I saw this:

Fist let me apologize for the quality of the picture.  The lighting was horrible and all I had was a point and shoot.  I've attempted to correct the image without distorting.  This the female of a breeding pair that lives within walking distance of our house.  Even though the bald eagle has been removed from the federal register of endangered species the City of Westminster still maintains the preserve for these eagles.  The eagles built their nest in 1991 and had their first offspring in 1996.  Eagles mate for life and return to their nesting sites.  These particular eagles tend to keep to themselves and very rarely come out of their preserve.  

It was nice to see them out and about.  Remember that road in the first image. This tree is about5 feet off the side of the road.  Cars were hitting their brakes, doing u-turns, and all around behaving unsafely to catch a glimpse or an image on their phone.  I find it reassuring that nature can still inspire in our world of technology.  So for everyone that is rushing to and from work going about your daily business don't forget to look around. You may just see something very cool....