Seriously, we were at the top of the world weren't we? It sure as heck felt it! No we weren't hiking you silly readers, but for those into hiking this would have been an awesome area for such an activity (Kim and John you two would love love love it here - hiking and kayaking on quiet lakes etc.)
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| A peaceful lake in the "middle of nowhere" somewhere in the Grand Mesa National Forest |
On Tuesday (I think) we headed out to see Grand Mesa and the Grand Mesa National Forest. Several people in the area recommended we see it so with a lot of time on our hands (we've been waiting for our mail to arrive from our "wonderful" mail forwarding service) so we decided to "just do it". So off we headed, bottles of water, Trader Joe "everything crackers" (oh how I miss Trader Joe's, not to mention TJ two buck Chuck ~ hmmmm that could be a topic of a post - the things (stores) I miss while traveling the country, trust me there are a few)
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| seriously, wouldn't you just love to stay in one of those cabins on the distant shore? |
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| the mandatory shot of Sir Arlo in a body of water with a tennis ball, wishing his best pal Casey was there to play with him! |
So many peaceful water spots along the way. The little water fall was part of an entire hill side with water falling down it and of course there were several pictures of Sir Arlo taken while laying in the water but I've spared you and narrowed it down to one photo of Sir and water and a tennis ball!
Aren't these aspens beautiful. The hills (mountains) are just golden with them, but I do believe, as gorgeous as these Colorado mountains are, New England is gorgeouser (!!), more colorful ~ New England has reds, greens and yellows ~ not such elevations as here in Colorado, but much more color!
Am I a total nut case, or are the shadows of the clouds on these mountainsides just outstanding?
The higher the elevation the less aspen trees there were, it just seemed to be evergreens (not a bad thing, just an observation) and way way off in the distance of the photo below are the Rocky Mountains (not sure the photo can be enlarged enough to see them, but stay tuned, there will be closer photos)
The final photo today is what I thought was the most gorgeous aspen grove in full bloom. I just wanted to walk and shuffle along in the leaves, even rake them up and jump in the pile and pretend I was a child back in Bennington, VT enjoying a fall day. I did make apple crisp the other night, but it's just a bit too warm in these parts for it to really "fit".
With all that said, we are leaving here tomorrow (much to my dismay) and headed east towards, but perhaps not right into, Denver. Rick searched out the weather where we're headed (which he always does, just because..) and it is going to be in the low 60's upper 50's during the day and as low as 32 at night ... on top of that, I have no clue where we are going to be - ummmm the rest area between exit 180 and 200?!?!?! There are NO campgrounds along I70 where we'll be traveling and I guess there was an issue staying at the Elks Lodge in Silverthorne where Rick called today. Could be an interesting couple days!
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