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From the Panama Canal to the Rocky Mountains

1 July 2009 Brett Blevins 4 Comments

Photo taken 12 June 2009. One of the steam shovels used to build the Panama Canal made the long, strange trip from sea level to an altitude of 8,228 feet (2,508 m) to reach its final resting place at the Nederland Mining Museum in Nederland, Colorado.

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Places, Xeric Plants

Everything is flowering on Green Mountain

Image 30 May 2009 Brett Blevins

Even the thousands of small cacti are flowering, though you have to get close to the ground to see how beautiful they are.

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Structures, Xeric Plants

Green Mountain is getting greener

18 May 2009 Brett Blevins

The tower a couple of weeks earlier.

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Places, Saga of The Cairn

Cairn #7 is growing

8 April 2009 Brett Blevins

People have been adding to cairn #7:

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Places, Saga of The Cairn

Cairn #6 torn down by the NTD Guy

1 April 2009 Brett Blevins

Cairn #6 was wrecked by The Negative Tearing-Down Guy, but people are rebuilding it.

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