Wild Cucharas Creek: Sun and Shade

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Down from the area of Bear Lake, Blue Lake, and their surrounding ponds, Cucharas Creek flows down the Cuchara Valley to join forces with Cucharas River. Perhaps it’s a typical Colorado stream, yet bearing the name of its more prominent sister, and being sourced around the valley’s nearby lakes, it may stand a little taller and prouder. Certainly it sings as if it does – that laughing, rolling song that mountain streams know and call out as they make their wild courses down through the spotty sunlight and shade of the forest.

Wild Cucharas Creek: Sun and Shade
The image is a mountain stream, flowing through a forest, with thick foliage on either side and big rocks forming a low rapids in the water. In the distance, the slope of a tall hill provides a visual clue to the mountainous area around the stream.© Randy Heffner inspect image detail »
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  • Title: Wild Cucharas Creek: Sun and Shade
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19 Jul 2025
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Randy Heffner

Randy lives at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture — reading, watching, walking, and sometimes creating in search of our better selves. Film and photography have a lot to do with it, but anyway, art. The tie is an anomaly.

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