Exit78 Photo of the Day #79
Bighorn sheep rams, Garden of the Gods, September 8, 2011 (Pentax K-r)
It’s pretty rare to see even a single bighorn sheep ram, so we were excited to see three of them in one place. Although we had already been to Gardens of the Gods earlier in the day after arriving in Colorado Springs, we had to decided to go back into the park after supper. We spotted the bighorns around 7:30 PM. .
We were camped at Garden of the Gods RV Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The RV “resort” is adjacent to Garden of the Gods, which has long been a Colorado Springs city park. Four-hundred eighty acres were conveyed to the city in 1909 by the children of railroad executive Charles Elliot Perkins to be operated permanently as a park, open to the public without charge.
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
