The Rocky Mountain Columbine (Columbine Aquilegia caerulea) is the state flower of Colorado and is sometimes known as “granny bonnets” because of its shape. The flower was originally discovered in 1820 on Pike’s Peak by mountain climber Edwin James.

In the past several months—since sometime around April 24—you have been seeing a different kind of post, mostly on Thursdays,on this blog  that will be displayed on the main page and are marked as “Password Protected” or maybe just “Protected” because WordPress keeps changing how it handles these kinds of posts. What is this about and what does it mean?

I love reading books but just as much as reading is fun for me, writing books is even more fun because I get to share some of the knowledge that I’ve acquired over the years with others.

The word “monochrome” describes photographs that use one color or shades of one color instead of pure black and white, while images using only shades of grey are called black-and-white or grayscale.

The above image was shot in a field of sunflowers near Brighton, Colorado with a Canon EOS 1D Mark IIN with EF 28-105mm lens (at 73mm.)