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Full sunlight on the Meadow Creek lagoon in Frisco, Colorado.
The pond where most of the photos in this post were taken is visible near the center of this Google Maps iPhone screen grab.
By Bob Berwyn
FRISCO — I think they named our townhome complex Lagoon because of the small pond that was built as part of the development, right behind our house, where Meadow Creek comes out of a concrete culvert from beneath Frisco’s commercial/light industrial zone.
To me, the “real” lagoon is just a little farther downstream, where our residential neighborhood ends and the the stream flows into the flatlands on the edge of Dillon Reservoir. It’s only about a five minute walk from our house, but it seems like a world apart.After passing through this highly altered environment (highways, shopping malls, parking lots and dense townhomes), the little creek that starts high in the Gore Range suddenly gets a chance to find its true nature again, spreading out into the willow wetlands in a complex swirl of channels. I’ve taken scores, if not hundreds of pictures right down at the end of our little lane, including the images in this post.
A wild sunset at the end of the lane.
Sunrise on the Meadow Creek lagoon.
Fleeting sunrise light paints the snow in the Meadow Creek wetlands.
A coppery sunset.
Late autumn clouds over the Meadow Creek lagoon.
Dawn.
Filed under: Colorado, Frisco, Morning photo, photography, Summit County Colorado Tagged: | Frisco Colorado, Meadow Creek, Summit County photography, urban streams, wetlands
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