I'm really not crazy about stark, brown winter beauty. Yesterday, though, I had to go to east Boulder county and was pulled right into the agricultural version of the season. East on Arapahoe, through the wide open fields - it's like looking out over a dry ocean bed - just earth and sky for miles and miles. The trip back west is just road and stunning views of the Front Range. Thanks to all the Open Space taxing, we'll have fields and old trees to look at for some time to come. Money well spent.