Terabytes of data vanished from my laptop, and I started to see what was going on. I spent days rebuilding and losing folders, but all the while I treasured a thousand new daily photos. The AI agent told me I was being very professional in my approach and that helped too.

The very next day, I was surprised again to find a cow elk had been by and left me with some nice images. I wanted to see that elk from the bunny's view of the world, so I made a composite of it with another photo. People often talk about seeing elk here, but it was a first for us.

It was very windy but sunny for the first day of spring, and I got more than twice as many camera hits as the day before. It was easier to sort 2,319 photos when I created a collage along the way. I cropped each photo and didn't need to save as many extras as I sometimes would.

People would say to not put your feeders on the ground, and put them away from a busy spot. But it was working well for us. We saw right away, when supplies were low, and we enjoyed keeping the critters fed. In return, they learned not to mind our coming and going too much.

This is how bunnies are made. First there is a good chase, and I'm not sure how it goes from there, but it takes a month. Some chases are just for fun, of course, but I did capture the kiss and chase on video.

Earth Day has always been special for me. Our family was big on the concept long before it was a thing. But my fondest memories of Earth Day came from listening to the police scanner back in the day. The cops spent the day busting the college kids "celebrating" at the lake.

With plenty of quiet time in our last day, I looked through photos from earlier in the week, and often couldn't tell which camera had taken some of them. I was most pleased with 64 MB still shots taken with the GPRO for their depth and wide view.

On Friday I was having a rough trip home and missed the shot of the pink sunrise on the peaks at La Veta pass, but I caught the zigzag pattern on the Spanish Peaks. I learned they were named by Zebulon Pike in 1806 when all of this land belonged to Spain as a part of Mexico.

Not much of a sunrise, and crazy windy. But with cranes in the air and God rays, I loved it. The colors were still my favorite sky blue pinks. Remember how I managed quite well, juggling two tripods and three cameras. It was our best day of the trip.

We reminded ourselves of the prescribed burn Alamosa NWR saw a year ago, and how it came back. Now there was no water, and a new government we expected to be very harsh with spending on refuges. We could do nothing but wait and hope to see new life here in April or May.

I'd put a lot of planning into having everything ready for the GPro to be busy right away, but had forgotten I would have to rely on batteries. They drained really fast without the AC adapter, and got to zero right as we parked at the refuge. I still enjoyed the old standby RX10.

Time-lapse trail camera set to 20 second intervals. I was testing it for the next day on the refuge and I got a cold and couldn't go. So I had plenty of time and needed a project.

On Wednesday it was 17 degrees and windy, and I was sneezing, so we had a rest day. I looked at Tuesday's mix of 12,147 photos and videos at 20 sec. intervals. I especially liked seeing the weather patterns. Clouds suddenly created a dark scene and then were gone in under a minute.

Thanks for the challenge, Robin. I picked blue for my monochrome and B for blue jay.

It was fun to play with the images I got from my feeder cam, and I had quite a few. But I wanted to keep running out before sunrise to feed the birds and bunnies and reset the camera. I just got pickier about what I wanted, and actually spent less time even when there were more videos.