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Chris mccowan

@mcc8.bsky.social
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Married. Retired. New Mexico native. Been in Colorado since the mid 1980’s. Current interest photography, van trips, nose work training with my dogs. Believe deeply in, and worried about, our democracy.

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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 18h
A leaf Katydid tangled in a spider web struggled on an orange bucket to get untangled. We got the web cleared and life goes on just before our first freeze tonight. #Katydid
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Longs Peak taken from Longmont Colorado. #LongsPeak #landscapes
Photo of Longs Peak taken from Longmont Colorado. A few trees and ranch house in foreground, with brownish/yellow foothills and Longs Peak behind and puffy clouds against blue sky. The clouds give a feeling of motion, because this photo is composed of several photos (stacked) and cloud movement during the time taken for the photo sequence results in that cloud appearance. In the sky above the peak an airplane is seen repeatedly moving across the photo showing the multiple photo composition.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These Steller's Jays and their flock visited our house (8500 ft elevation) almost every day for many years. My understanding is that these Colorado Jays have white facial markings that other Steller's Jays do not. It tends to make individuals unique. #Steller'sJays #birds
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Perseverance.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Leaves just don't get enough love. #houseplants
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
House plant day. #Flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cruising Rocky Mountain National Park. Aways nice to be above the clouds in the Rockies. #RMNP
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Could be love. It's that time of year. #RMNP
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That time of year in the Colorado high country. #aspen
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Built for a task! #butterflies
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Clipper looks like a Japanese painting to me. #Butterflies #Flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Butterfly in the spotlight, silhouetting the head, thorax, and tongue (proboscis). A lot of nice angles to view butterflies from. #butterflies
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Skipper, I think, with immaculate wings. #butterflies
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cool little plant with 1 little pink flower hiding in the really interesting round leaves. Maybe Neverdie (Kalanchoe crenata). #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Malachite butterfly. #butterflies
A Malachite butterfly on a broad green leaf with a brown burnt tip. It is a large, Neotropical brush-footed butterfly known for its striking pale green to yellow-green translucent patches against a brown and olive background.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From my way back. An optical micrograph and a fracture surface of World Trade Center steel. This day brings back many memories.
Optical micrograph showing one of the microstructures found for the World Trade Center steel (color etch).Fracture surface (scanning electron fractography) of a World Trade Center test specimen showing ductile dimples running in elongated morphologies along tubular shaped sulfide inclusions.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Butterflies are just a pleasure. #butterflies
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Plumeria flower, I guess. This plant was gorgeous! #flowers
From the online info... The image shows the classic Plumeria flower: five overlapping petals with a strong yellow gradient at the center fading to white, with a faint pink tinge on the petal edges. The surrounding smooth, reddish stems and green leaves are also consistent with Plumeria.
Possible Lookalikes: Could be confused with other Plumeria species such as Plumeria alba, but the pink-tinged petal edges and yellow throat favor P. rubra.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Had fun today at the butterfly pavilion. This was my favorite color butterfly. #butterfly
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just throw the ball! #DogsOfBluesky
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@bsky.app Grass Hopper on the step.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Winners of the 17th Audubon Photography Awards celebrate birds. My favorite.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Longs Peak under grey, smoky skies. #Scape
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My girls at a favorite game, couch play. The rescue likes making the pup do the work. She is very lazy for a kelpie/border collie mix. #Internationaldogday
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Had a nice drive today. #landscape #RMNP
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Some determined yellow snap dragons growing thru the ties in our garden.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Hibiscus bloom today. #Flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My big sister running away from home, circa 1956. My sister had strong convictions. #humansofbluesky
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Another bloom. #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New blooms. #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
While making coffee this morning I noticed this wonderful kitchen window plant arrangement. Our house is full of such things, thanks to my wife. This little guy is about 6 inches tall. #plants #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In my shower today. It looks like an Indian Meal Moth (Plodia interpunctella) according to info from internet. A tiny little moth.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My first Dragon Fly photo. Kinda cheating it had to come inside to me, but it's a start. I could look at the wings all day.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Had a nice walk today. #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A Sunflower standing proud in the garden today. #flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Patience is a virtue.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Sunset on the Loire River.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Road Trip.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Pink Delmara. Such an airy little flower. #Flowers
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My Thursday #HumansOfBluesky submission. A candid shot of a friend of my daughters. Evident she was happy to see her.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Daisies in the garden always look happy.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A camping spot above the Colorado River. I love this stretch of the river and try to hit this spot when we travel into Utah. Sadly, just a bit upstream, the Synder Fire is burning near the Colorado-Utah border. Gladly, 49% contained now and evacuation orders are lifted.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy camping Blue Sky. Our car/festival camping got a bit out of hand, but produced many fond memories!
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
OK. Sorry, but who can resist looking at their finger prints. I happen to have a double spiral on this index finger because I almost cut this finger tip off as a 4 year old... doing something they had just told me not to do.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I've been on ancestry.com lately. It's fun, because of relatives having done a lot of hard work. The old photos are really interesting to me. These are a couple of my ancestors with families that arrived in America circa 1850. #History #CivilWar #Navy #Army
Photo of a young Civil War soldier in uniform, Lewis Nelson, who was a first ancestor from Norway. He joined the 15th infantry unit as a sergeant in 1861 and mustered out as a Captain in 1865. So he was evidently in many of the terrible battles in the Civil War.A young William Bolton Carkson in a navy uniform sitting on a wall. He was first generation and joined the Navy in 1879 at the age of 17. There is a Boatsman Whistle around his neck that one of my cousins has in his family collection. That is about all I have found out about his Navy service.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This tree is a trip. Love the contrast. It also has some small groups of bright green leaves.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Visited the wild animal sanctuary in central Colorado. Interesting arrangements for the facility to cope with abused or bad confinements associated with privately owned animals. I have mix feelings but it seems to definitely fill a nitch that these animal need… at least I hope that is true.
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Our 1 1/2 year old Hollie. Very affectionate, but a rough and tumble pup. I love her face... she gets away with a lot! #DogsOfBluesky
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Chris mccowan @mcc8.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Spider napping in the shade on a rose.
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