tisha's posts with tag: travel
|  | Easter Sunday at Garden of the Gods. A third visit from Mom and Dad, a 5th and 6th unseasonably awful snowstorm up here on the high plains desert... The freezing fog grew these incredibly beautiful horizontal mini-icicles, covering or outlining everything in a delictae line of white. As you can see, I was especially fascinated by the frozen yuccas... |
| | More from our trip to Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. It's truly amazing how the view changes every time the road turns (which, being in the mountains, it does frighteningly frequently, and sharply). For some reason, I found myself fascinated with the idea of trying to catch this in my side-view mirror. (Convertibles put crazy thoughts in your head. Like that, and like driving through a snowy national park in March with the top down...) |
| | Sunday, we went to Estes Park for a cowboy poetry festival we never found, and for our semi-regular "just to make Mom jealous and cause we can" visit to Rocky Mountain National Park (one of my, and Mom's, favorite places in world.)
since there's still a lot of snow up there, the herds of elk were down in the plains, the snow was just starting to melt off, and the crowds were small. (But we still managed to run into a fellow Northwestern alum with his family.) |
| Start: | Feb 10, '07 | | End: | Feb 14, '07 | | Location: | Copper, Colorado |
Heading to Cooper Mountain with friends to learn to ski & snowboard, snowshoe, tube... I'm skipping the skiing (been there done that) but plan to take advantage for relaxation. If anyone has advice on neat stuff to do while we're in Copper Mountain or the outer area, please feel free to jump in!
| | New years day we headed south, and found Bishop's Castle, in the mountains near Pueblo, CO. Mr. Bishop started building the castle in the mid-60s, based only on his experience apprenticing for his father, who was an ironworker.
The castle is incredible, with stonework, ironwork, and some beautiful stained glass...and the man is still working on it, adding a little every year according to a blueprint that exists only in his head.
The man is .. well... interesting. Dad and I got collared to listen to his rantings for awhile... he's not totally nuts, but he has some very definite views and could be considered a little paranoid... |
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