COS looking brown and dead for 6 months?

[otterprods]

Originally Posted by CABQ

Good searching otterprods! Dig up some more! For the future visitors. COLORADO SPRINGS IS HAY COLORED HALF THE YEAR! not brown, not dead looking. Ya got any with full on sun

That previous attachment was my own photo which I took at Cheyenne Mountain Resort in February. Attached here is another one of Greenland OSP (north of Springs) in full sunlight. It's pretty snowy, but you can see some grass poking through. The photo threads that McCowdog and others posted are as telling as anything though, so check those out first and if you still need more, I'll dig something else up and attach it.

[Marcy1210]

I never really noticed how brown Colorado could be until we visited our daughter in Tacoma for Christmas one year, and after two weeks there, flew back to COS. I was really surprised at the brown. Now that I live in Tucson, COS seems very lush and green.

I still don't think there's anything as beautiful as the changing of the aspens (other than maybe New England in the fall). In my 40+ years in Colorado, mostly in Divide, I was continually awed by the aspens every year.

[ryanek9freak]

Originally Posted by CABQ

I went through forum old posts and learned (I think) that COS turns brown and dead for 6 months a year.

Now this is crazy to me because I've never seen pictures looking like that.

Is this true that the grass and trees and plants are dead that long?

Does anyone have pictures of how that looks?

Which months look that way?

Thanks

Yea, pretty much lol.

[otowi]

LOL I remember the first time I went to Vancouver in January. And they had green grass. And they didn't even water it. I was flabbergasted. I had just thought everyone's grass went dormant in winter except places like Florida.