Boulder is famous for it’s consistent bright sun and blue skies. Let”s enjoy that most delightful treat, coupled with a cactus flower. For a photo tip  lighting is today’s focus. Sometimes the sun is our enemy. Sometimes it is the magical touch that makes a photo. This  image features a holiday cactus, likely a […]

      A Lifetime of Stories, Now Shared Through the Camera In Boulder, some people follow a straight line through life. Others follow something closer to a murmuration — a shifting pattern that only reveals its shape over time. For Lenny “Lensworth” Frieling, that pattern has included more chapters than most people experience in […]

Wildlife photography is often about patience, timing, and a little bit of magic. In today’s Outdoor Picture of the Day, award-winning photographer Lenny Lensworth Frieling captures a remarkable moment that feels almost suspended in time—a Boulder blue jay with its mouth open as a peanut hangs mid-air just inches away. The photograph is a split-second […]

This black and white butterfly feeding on an orange flower cluster is less commonly known as a , commonly known as the Ismenius Tiger or Tiger Heliconian. As a lover of words, otherwise known as a lexophile, a linguaphile , or even a word nerd,  you’ve got to love the name of this butterfly.  From […]

Boulder’s neighboring Westminster Butterfly Pavilion is home to many of the famous and beautiful blue morpho butterflies. These blue beauties are both spectacular and fast!  They simply won’t hold still to be photographed. Yesterday was the exception. I set up in a comfortable position, propped on a bench, and waited. I found a spot where the blue butterflies […]

Sacajawea is forever tied to Boulder. With a coin face designed by famous sculpture Glenna Goodacre, mother of Boulder’s own Jill Goodacre Connick, on the $1.00 coin, Sacajawea was in part guide, in part translator, peacemaker/peacekeeper/, and mother. She had to  walk 5,000 to 6,000 miles. Wages: poor? Place in history: huge.  Hours: 24/7. Native […]

A Quiet Celebration of Color, Detail, and Life Along the Front Range If you’ve spent any time browsing nature photography on AboutBoulder.com, chances are you’ve paused—maybe without even realizing why—on an image credited to Lenny Lensworth Frieling. His photography has a way of slowing you down. Nowhere is that more true than in his ongoing […]

  Boulder’s Groundhogs Day, February 2, is today! 1. Are there even groundhogs in Boulder? Well, sort of., but with an important Colorado twist: Pennsylvania Colorado doesn’t really have “groundhogs” like Boulder does. But neither is Punxsutawne Phil!!!The classic Groundhog Day animal (Punxsutawney Phil) is a woodchuck, a type of marmot common in the eastern U.S. Woodchucks […]

Boulder’ 1-13 sunrise was special. It was the anniversary of my late Dad’s birthday. He remains my greatest mentor. He was “father” to several of my friends, and a mentor to all of us. It is fitting that the sunrise was so special. He was an engineer, inventor, teacher, author, Silva instructor,  mathematician,  and much […]

Boulder is a place for celebration of the “Year Of The Horse.” The Chinese Zodiac is coming to the close of the Year Of The Snake and looking to the beginning on February 17, 2026, of the Year Of The Horse The Year of the Horse always arrives with a certain kind of energy. You […]