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Long and not so winding road

April 2, 2015 by Road Otter

Road Home

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  • Denver & Denvention

First published August 11, 2008

Leaving Denver, headed back to LA. The clouds play with light and shadow on the mountains, sometimes making a grass covered mountain side shine like green velvet. The green of the trees, the blues of the mountains, the light and shadow of the clouds, almost looks unreal. I told myself I wouldn’t take so many pictures on the way home, as the road was the same road, the grass the same grass. Except this grass looks like velvet. And some of the vistas just takes my breath away. In Colorado, the green trees along a river stand out much more against the yellows of the prairie grasses.

Road SouthRoad South
Road South
Light And ShadowLight And Shadow
Light And Shadow
Green VelvetGreen Velvet
Green Velvet
Clouds And MountainsClouds And Mountains
Clouds And Mountains
OneMoreVelvetyMeadowOneMoreVelvetyMeadow
OneMoreVelvetyMeadow
Long Breathless VistaLong Breathless Vista
Long Breathless Vista
Where The River RunsWhere The River Runs
Where The River Runs

AirForcePlane

Do click on the images
to get the larger view.
I'm biased but I
think they're awesome.

One of the more interesting sites is the plane on the ground, on or near the Air Force Academy.

 

GardenOfTheGods

I now have a reason to go back to Colorado. A place now on my to-see list, “Garden Of The Gods”.

 

BoxcarsAllAloneA siding of box cars. They were there on our way to Denver. They were there on our way back. Just sittin’ there, waiting for someone to need them.

 

Trinidad

Lovely old building in Trinidad, Colorado. I couldn’t get a good shot of anything else, as there were signs, trees, trucks, the usual interference. There also weren’t any convenient parking spots to pull over and snap pics. Ah well.

RoadSouthFromTheBorder
Construction on every road, everywhere we went. I stopped avoiding taking pictures of it, because I would miss taking shots like this. Do click on it and see the larger shot.
 

RoadToLoseYourselfOn

 

The road ahead, winding or straight, calls us on.

 

CloudsMountainsSunDogs
As the day got later, it became more difficult to take pictures into the west. The clouds, mountains and green green grass delight the eye, even with the sundogs.

 

Antelope

 

And I finally got some antelope!
 

 

VelvetSlopes
As night falls, the rolling hills turn to dark green velvet slopes.

 

SunsetCloudsAndHills
Clouds still lit by the sun over shadowed hills.

 

PerfectSunset

 

And a sunset Hollywood couldn’t have done better.

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