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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-07-02 09:03 pm
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June 28: Mount Falcon + hanging out with Taylor
A little belated, but here are the pictures from Monday! Taylor and I went to Mount Falcon (I know I just shared pictures from there a few weeks ago, but Taylor hadn't ever been there.)
We took a slightly longer route than Alex and I had - the same "castle trail" out to the ruins, but instead of doubling back, we took the "meadow trail" back.
Here are a couple of my favorite pictures above the cut:
The ruins are still really fun to look at. I'm especially a sucker for all the places where you can see through windows and doorways and gaps in the walls into multiple rooms and layers.
And a nice picturesque mountain shot, with the snow on the peaks.
We got there and it started to rain almost immediately, ha. That worked out through, because Taylor had loaned me an umbrella, and it meant that just about everyone who was out was heading back to the trailhead as we were heading in, so we encountered fewer people the rest of the time!
(Also, rain-damp pinon pines is just about my favorite scent.)
A wild rose with rain drops.
Some nice tall purple flowers. There were lots of wildflowers, which made it a lovely walk.
This is my favorite of the windows in the ruins, the shield-shaped one. Another spot where you can see through to so many layers.
Several different kinds of wildflowers in the ruins.
Perspective: using moss as a pillow, lol. I love how vibrantly green the moss is! This is down below the ruins.
There's also a lot of broken glass down there. Mostly recent-ish, as it's pretty out of sight, so I'm sure lots of people use it as a drinking spot. But we also found some really old glass fragments - stuff worn mostly smooth, or with vintage logos, ha.
A panorama shot looking to the east. I'm sure I've shared extremely similar shots before, but I always like it. The clouds were neat this day, and there's Red Rocks Amphitheater in the middle.
I took a lot more pictures of flowers on the "meadow trail", but a lot of them didn't turn out very well, unfortunately.
I do love this enormous thistle and the adorable bumblebee that was living its best life.
It's no Brood X, but we did hear cicadas in the trees, and then we found this one on the path. I scooped it up to move it out of the direct pathway, so it wouldn't get stepped on. So small! So cute!
And a very pretty shot of the titular meadow. Nice yellow flower patch!
After this, Taylor and I headed back to their house.
We watched The Old Guard which I've been wanting to watch (and forgetting to) since it came out. I really enjoyed it! As Taylor told me, it was just a pile of my favorite tropes, haha. And I would absolutely be okay with Charlize Theron starring in as many action roles as she wants, because I will continue to love watching her in them, lol. The plot was fun, the choreography was great, I'm a sucker for competence porn, I'm also a sucker for playing with immortality and what it means, and always love soulmate/undying love stuff, so it had plenty to appeal to me, ha. (I could see why so many of the Good Omens writers I'd been following jumped to The Old Guard for a while - that "immortals wandering through different periods of history" thing is a lot of fun.
Taylor also started a playthrough of Transistor for me to watch. I'm really enjoying it, so far! It's absolutely beautiful, and I've been liking the way the plot and worldbuilding is doled out. (Also, utilizing a desire to understand the plot to also get you to try different combat builds? The sheer number of different combinations you can make for said combat? Neat design choices.)
We also read more of That Ain't Witchcraft. I think we're maybe about halfway through it at the moment? I still find it such a coincidence that Taylor and I reached that one at the same time Angel of the Overpass came out, since there's such a significant overlap, haha.
And then we listened to the (quite long) Q&A for Season 4 of The Magnus Archives. I always really love their Q&A stuff, because they are genuinely super funny, and also because I love learning about some of the writing and production choices that were made very deliberately. I'm still a bit sad to now be starting on the final season, but I've very much enjoyed the series.
And that's a more in-depth rundown of what I did on Monday, lol.
We took a slightly longer route than Alex and I had - the same "castle trail" out to the ruins, but instead of doubling back, we took the "meadow trail" back.
Here are a couple of my favorite pictures above the cut:
The ruins are still really fun to look at. I'm especially a sucker for all the places where you can see through windows and doorways and gaps in the walls into multiple rooms and layers.
And a nice picturesque mountain shot, with the snow on the peaks.
We got there and it started to rain almost immediately, ha. That worked out through, because Taylor had loaned me an umbrella, and it meant that just about everyone who was out was heading back to the trailhead as we were heading in, so we encountered fewer people the rest of the time!
(Also, rain-damp pinon pines is just about my favorite scent.)
A wild rose with rain drops.
Some nice tall purple flowers. There were lots of wildflowers, which made it a lovely walk.
This is my favorite of the windows in the ruins, the shield-shaped one. Another spot where you can see through to so many layers.
Several different kinds of wildflowers in the ruins.
Perspective: using moss as a pillow, lol. I love how vibrantly green the moss is! This is down below the ruins.
There's also a lot of broken glass down there. Mostly recent-ish, as it's pretty out of sight, so I'm sure lots of people use it as a drinking spot. But we also found some really old glass fragments - stuff worn mostly smooth, or with vintage logos, ha.
A panorama shot looking to the east. I'm sure I've shared extremely similar shots before, but I always like it. The clouds were neat this day, and there's Red Rocks Amphitheater in the middle.
I took a lot more pictures of flowers on the "meadow trail", but a lot of them didn't turn out very well, unfortunately.
I do love this enormous thistle and the adorable bumblebee that was living its best life.
It's no Brood X, but we did hear cicadas in the trees, and then we found this one on the path. I scooped it up to move it out of the direct pathway, so it wouldn't get stepped on. So small! So cute!
And a very pretty shot of the titular meadow. Nice yellow flower patch!
After this, Taylor and I headed back to their house.
We watched The Old Guard which I've been wanting to watch (and forgetting to) since it came out. I really enjoyed it! As Taylor told me, it was just a pile of my favorite tropes, haha. And I would absolutely be okay with Charlize Theron starring in as many action roles as she wants, because I will continue to love watching her in them, lol. The plot was fun, the choreography was great, I'm a sucker for competence porn, I'm also a sucker for playing with immortality and what it means, and always love soulmate/undying love stuff, so it had plenty to appeal to me, ha. (I could see why so many of the Good Omens writers I'd been following jumped to The Old Guard for a while - that "immortals wandering through different periods of history" thing is a lot of fun.
Taylor also started a playthrough of Transistor for me to watch. I'm really enjoying it, so far! It's absolutely beautiful, and I've been liking the way the plot and worldbuilding is doled out. (Also, utilizing a desire to understand the plot to also get you to try different combat builds? The sheer number of different combinations you can make for said combat? Neat design choices.)
We also read more of That Ain't Witchcraft. I think we're maybe about halfway through it at the moment? I still find it such a coincidence that Taylor and I reached that one at the same time Angel of the Overpass came out, since there's such a significant overlap, haha.
And then we listened to the (quite long) Q&A for Season 4 of The Magnus Archives. I always really love their Q&A stuff, because they are genuinely super funny, and also because I love learning about some of the writing and production choices that were made very deliberately. I'm still a bit sad to now be starting on the final season, but I've very much enjoyed the series.
And that's a more in-depth rundown of what I did on Monday, lol.