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October 6, 2011 by Anya Elise

autumn || Rocky Mountain National Park fall color video

fall || Rocky Mountain National Park fall colors from anya semenoff on Vimeo.

 

Here are some searches that all lead to a common place: jalapenos contact lenses damage, escher brain, walt disney’s first cousins.

That common place, is my blog.

It astounds me, the random searches that ultimately lead to this little place on the internet. I feel both entertained, and a little bad, that someone seeking out legitimate information about the potential damage done to contact lenses when mingled with jalapenos instead finds this account.

Or when, perhaps, an aspiring Walt Disney history buff, wanting to gain insight into that famous innovator’s family tree, instead finds this (scroll down for the offending phrase: “I’d like to thank the Academy.” Disney’s Oscars. Not to be confused with Oscar Disney, Walt Disney’s first cousin twice removed.)

Finally, there’s a person, somewhere out there, who was interested in the inner workings of Escher’s brain, but instead, got to look at some fancy phone photos of my desk calendar.

And now, any future such searches will lead them not to their intended destinations, but to this post. Where they can view the above video. And drink in the beauty of a Rocky Mountain autumn.

And the confusing search cycle continues!

[Song is: Play On, by Kelsey James. Buy it here and here.]

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October 5, 2011 by Anya Elise

yellow, red || Rocky Mountain National Park fall colors

I don’t really have the constitution for iambic pentameter.

Which is lucky for you, really, because my undying love for fall is really the stuff made for sonnets.

I do declare that fall is my most beloved season. I am obviously not the first to declare such a statement, but I had a chance to act on it this past weekend when I took a journey up into the mountains to snap some fall shots in Rocky Mountain National Park.

What we found was exquisite.

You cannot top the yellows and reds that spring forth every year in those mountains. There’s really no equal to that level of natural majesty and awe.

(Seriously, insert sonnet here. Any poets among us?)

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June 1, 2011 by Anya Elise

a factory || Colorado day-tripper

Last Friday (I know, behind the times on these posts…), I embarked on a day-tripper expedition to northern Colorado. That is, Fort Collins.

The destination: Fort Collins.

The more-specific destination: the New Belgium factory. In Fort Collins.

To more precise: we were on a mission to embark on a brewery tour. At the New Belgium factory.

In Fort Collins.

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May 19, 2011 by Anya Elise

tips for the rain || Colorado weather

My sister, Emily, loves.loves.loves the rain. She is better suited for the damp air of the Pacific Northwest than anyone I’ve ever met before.

Clearly, she and I are quite opposite on that front. I for one, love Colorado’s 300+ days per year of sun. The drier, sunnier, brighter a day is, the more I perk up. The sun and myself are honorary BFFs.

However, as the sun has apparently decided to take an indefinite leave of absence, Emily devised some tips for rain survival.

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May 12, 2011 by Anya Elise

the rain saga continues || Colorado weather video

Don’t let this cheery photo deceive you.

It’s been raining for two days straight. As a Colorado native – accustomed to 300+ days of sun per year – I begin to get very gloomy when cloudiness stretches beyond a single day.

Birds stop singing.

Tempers rise.

An abundance of coffee is needed.

And random, goofy videos are made.

And then those videos are posted onto blogs for all to see.

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