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We’re spoiled here in Colorado. We get lots of sun and great weather and we sometimes take it for granted. The last few days we’ve had a big storm and lots of grey sky and cold. Taken separately grey skies and cold are easily managed but put the two of them together and maybe add some wind and before long everyone has a severe case of the screaming meemies. The screaming meemies are usually accompanied by huge meals of high fructose corn syrup and carbs, the bad ones, also, sadly, some people in their despair turn to chocolate. I know, I know, it’s worse than crack but I told you, we don’t normally get bad weather so there is a tendency to over react. The month of February has become known as the month of Bliveting Waist Lines or ‘BWL’ as we say between mouthfuls, because that’s when we can get the dark days where sitting by the fire helps but doesn’t reduce those anxious glances at the window. “Still grey out? Yup. Well here, have this bowl of spaghetti.” So what’s this got to do with todays picture? Well it is a known fact around here that the only antidote to sun deprivation is finding some sun, failing that, a picture full of deep rich, warm color like you find in a western sunset up on the Firehole river in Yellowstone will help and I think this one succeeds very well. Now that I’ve looked at it long enough I find that I don’t need that third bowl of spaghetti.