{"id":78,"date":"2013-10-18T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanroseimages.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-10-18T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:15:13","slug":"government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stanroseimages.com\/blog\/government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunrise over the Sangre De Cristo Range on an icy October morning.<\/p>\n

<\/figcaption><\/figure> I was watching the weather maps the other day, and noticed that high clouds would be moving in fro the north as a cold front was moving towards northern Colorado yesterday. I figured the sunrise would be special, so I got up at 4 am and headed for my favorite spot, the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Despite the re-opening of the government, they had yet to remove the barricades that prevented you from entering the park; so I went to ‘Plan B’–a short drive west to the San Luis Lakes State Park. No barricaes there. No people either, except a few hunters who were disturbing my peaceful morning. I’m not sure why, but the lakes themselves have either been drained or lost all their water, so right now they’re just mud puddles, but thanks to the cold nights they were nicely frozen puddles, and reflected my forecast sunrise quite nicely. As the sun finally rose over the Sangre De Cristo Range, I grabbed this shot of the range and sandy lakeshore, along with distant snow-capped dunes. <\/p>\n

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Sand Dunes and dry lake bed after a mid-October snow.<\/p>\n

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\nOn the way out, I took this shot from snowy La Veta Pass, with the Spanish Peaks in the distance. It was a beautiful fall morning!
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Spanish Peaks from La Veta Pass<\/p>\n

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