... "Lupis" Hauls in a Freight Train ...
Only hit all afternoon, worth the wait
Middle Pond along Deer Creek

Fishin' the lower pond
(two month's earlier)
Dusk

Garden

This year's annual Perseid meteor shower peaked overnight Sunday and into Monday.
The Perseid meteors appear to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, hence the name.
We hiked up to the "Sky Deck" located on the mountain that shadows our property.
It was not a good night for viewing as we had some low level clouds that moved in around 4am.
We did however log some 40 or so meteors and 4 or 5 satellites, unfortunately no fire balls!
A single meteor captured in photo....The globes were caused by long exposure lens flare.
Image was made looking towards the East/North East and using a 14mm lens at f3.5 on a Canon D7 with a 25 second exposure...ISO 6400
Might try for it again tonight, but currently raining here with more rain forecasted throughout the evening.

Kp Ranch entered 5 wine varieties into the amateur wine making competition at the 2013 Adams County Fair

Out of all entries submitted, in nine separate judging categories,
2-KpR's received a1st place....our Coffee Port and Red Grape Port
1-KpR received a 2nd place.....our Snowy Dog Sauvignon blanc
2-KpR's received a 3rd place, our Mezza Luna Red, White Chocolate Port
The six judges then had to pick a Grand Champion out of the all of the1st place winners in each of the nine wine making categories........

Kp Ranch's Coffee Port  was chosen as the competitions Grand Champion Winner!
We are standing PROUD!

Lunar phase on 17 July 2013 Wednesday is Waxing Gibbous.
The moon is in the zodiac sign of Scorpio.
A vignette through Ponderosa Pine branches
Morrison, CO

Livvy @ Eleven

Silver Queen Corn
Kp Ranch, Morrison, CO

 ...  Captian of Sailing Ship (Circa 1830's) ...  Strange Image Found/Photographed Inside Flower Petal ...

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