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Springtime in the Rockies
Mar. 26th, 2004 03:15 pmI don't care what Elmore Leonard says, it's my journal and I'm going to talk about the weather.
I just returned from a lovely walk to another building in our complex. We're having a run of unseasonably perfect, warm weather. On my long way back - I wasn't about to take the direct route, naturally - it occurred to me that many of my LJ friends don't live in the US and may be interested to read what it's like in Denver.
Now, most of you outside the US have a much better handle on our geography than we do of yours, but if you're unsure where Denver is, plop your finger in the center of a US map. Yeah, just about there.
We're a mile high. Good slogan, huh? The Mile High City. AKA the Queen City of the Plains, because we abut the first mountain range of the Rockies. (Coming from the east, that is, which everyone did until the advent of jet travel.) It's called the Front Range, which I think has to be one of the lamest names ever for a geographic feature. I mean, is there a Back Range? A Just-Over-The-Edge-and-Around-the-Corner Range?( more )
I just returned from a lovely walk to another building in our complex. We're having a run of unseasonably perfect, warm weather. On my long way back - I wasn't about to take the direct route, naturally - it occurred to me that many of my LJ friends don't live in the US and may be interested to read what it's like in Denver.
Now, most of you outside the US have a much better handle on our geography than we do of yours, but if you're unsure where Denver is, plop your finger in the center of a US map. Yeah, just about there.
We're a mile high. Good slogan, huh? The Mile High City. AKA the Queen City of the Plains, because we abut the first mountain range of the Rockies. (Coming from the east, that is, which everyone did until the advent of jet travel.) It's called the Front Range, which I think has to be one of the lamest names ever for a geographic feature. I mean, is there a Back Range? A Just-Over-The-Edge-and-Around-the-Corner Range?( more )
