A for Aggies - Colorado Mountains

So I spent my younger years growing up in Fort Collins Colorado.  I always marveled at the huge mountains (I still do).

There was one specific mountain that had a huge A on it.  I asked my mom what it was for and she said it was an A for Aggies.  My young mind always thought the A on the mountain was for the supermarket in town which was called Aggies. I never made the correct connection until I was an adult. In reality it was named after the Colorado State University Aggie Ram which was adopted by the school in 1959.  

Here is  a picture of the Aggie Ram logo

Here is a picture of the Aggies Mountain. Its pretty much how I remember it as four year old me.

My dad was attending the school to get his PhD in Electrical Engineering.



I have fond memories of the five of us traveling to the top of the mountain by car and in shorts and tee-shirts having snowball fights with my brother and sister.  My mom could dish it out too.

I can't draw (or paint) mountains as well as I vision them in my mind, but that doesn't make them any less breathtaking.  Today I spent the better part of the day working on this envelope (cover) for one of my buddies in the art cover exchange.

Its the first time I have attempted a snow scene.  Of course I have my usual barbed wire fencing I have been putting on almost all of my artwork for years.