Is Denver boring? (moving to, activities, campus)

[Scott5280]

Well the weather is anything but boring; today our high temp at 71 is higher than both
LA and Vegas, tomorrow expect snow high of 38....You can wear shorts and parkas all
in the same week on a fairly regular basis...

[wanttomoveeast]

Just thank global warming for that. It wasn't always that way. Soon my property in Thornton will be oceanside.

Originally Posted by Scott5280

Well the weather is anything but boring; today our high temp at 71 is higher than both
LA and Vegas, tomorrow expect snow high of 38....You can wear shorts and parkas all
in the same week on a fairly regular basis...

[katmoney]

Originally Posted by Scott5280

Well the weather is anything but boring; today our high temp at 71 is higher than both
LA and Vegas, tomorrow expect snow high of 38....You can wear shorts and parkas all
in the same week on a fairly regular basis...

I do love this crazy a** schizophrenic weather!

[wanttomoveeast]

I love not having to wear gloves, and a hat and three shirts and a sweater and an itchy wool coat!

[vegaspilgrim]

Originally Posted by wanttomoveeast

Vegas: I have never been to Phoenix. I was talking about Albq. It was downtownnola who mentioned Phoenix. And I'm sorry, I see no beauty in drab browness. Not compared to lush Tennessee anyway.

If the only color you see in all the photos I've just posted on this thread over the last day (which included scenes in/around Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas) is brown, you might want to get your eyes checked. I see many shades of green, pink, red, blue, gray, black, yellow, white, and yes... brown-- and dozens of different hues of that color. This pathetic criticism of the western landscape as "brown," and "brown" as inferior to "green," unfortunately seems to be quite common in our culture, even among those who live in this part of the country.

And that's actually one of my biggest complaints with Denver; it's a city settled and dominated from day one until now by those who have attempted to make the place look artificially green like in the east-- at an enormous waste of precious water-- rather than embrace xeriscaping and the native landscape like Albuquerque (of course, I took a picture of a grassy quad at UNM and a golf course, so while they still have non-native turf grass there too, it's still not as bad as Denver) and Tucson have-- and even in the outskirts of Pueblo (the northernmost outpost of the desert southwest IMO).

[zman0457]

I think if I take a picture of Pittsburg with a 50mm lens, and from a similar distance take one of Denver with a 28mm lens, then Denver is going to look small.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by movementarian

That is ironic because that is exactly what I always hear. Except replace the word Boulder with Denver and the word Denver with Fort Collins or Colorado Springs. Or replace the word Boulder with Fort Collins and the word Denver with Cheyenne. Or replace the word Boulder with Colorado Springs and the word Denver with Pueblo. Or replace the word Boulder with Springfield and the word Denver with Shelbyville...

Everyone along the Front Range likes to look down on some other town.

Well, yes, but as a Boulder Countian myself I can say that the ignorance of some Boulderites towards Denver is amazing. They think it's some "den of iniquity" where everyone smokes, no one recycles, everyone shops at a mall in national chain stores, etc. I will say the ignorance some have towards Boulder is similar: dirty hippies who eat granola and wear Birkenstocks all the time. Having lived in both and liking both, I think they are different but one is not better than the other.

Originally Posted by wanttomoveeast

Just thank global warming for that. It wasn't always that way. Soon my property in Thornton will be oceanside.

Actually, I don't think the weather has changed noticeably anyway, in the 28 yrs I have been here. The first winter we were here was warm and dry, with very little snow. It was after that year that the ski areas put in snowmaking. A couple years later was the great Christmas blizzard of '82. Then the Thanksgiving blizzard of '83. A lot more I don't specifically remember. My kids hardly ever had a snow day off school from 1989 to June 4, 2005, but it snowed in Boulder on the latter date, the day my youngest graduated from high school.

[wanttomoveeast]

haha, yes, I do have bad eyes. But sorry, compared to the eastern spots we talked about, Denver is brown to me. I did throw a bone though, there are worse areas as in brownness. As far as brown being worse than green, that's just a personal thing. I know tons of people who find beauty in the desert, while I think it looks awful. Just me. You and I have totally conflicting loves of cities and such, so it doesn't surprise me we disagree. It's all good though, I respect your opinion.

Originally Posted by vegaspilgrim

If the only color you see in all the photos I've just posted on this thread over the last day (which included scenes in/around Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas) is brown, you might want to get your eyes checked. I see many shades of green, pink, red, blue, gray, black, yellow, white, and yes... brown-- and dozens of different hues of that color. This pathetic criticism of the western landscape as "brown," and "brown" as inferior to "green," unfortunately seems to be quite common in our culture, even among those who live in this part of the country.

And that's actually one of my biggest complaints with Denver; it's a city settled and dominated from day one until now by those who have attempted to make the place look artificially green like in the east-- at an enormous waste of precious water-- rather than embrace xeriscaping and the native landscape like Albuquerque (of course, I took a picture of a grassy quad at UNM and a golf course, so while they still have non-native turf grass there too, it's still not as bad as Denver) and Tucson have-- and even in the outskirts of Pueblo (the northernmost outpost of the desert southwest IMO).

[wanttomoveeast]

Katiana: Re: the weather. I was actually cracking a joke. Hmm, I don't really know for sure. I'd have to do major research. And last I saw, I think even the scientists were in disagreement. I believe you though. And you know, our memories as kids are probably not exactly on point. : )

[wanttomoveeast]

Is that really the truth? Are you a prof. photographer and can tell or was it just obvious?

Originally Posted by zman0457

I think if I take a picture of Pittsburg with a 50mm lens, and from a similar distance take one of Denver with a 28mm lens, then Denver is going to look small.