Home: There and Back Again

I was about to set off on another overseas adventure, but my temp job ended a little earlier than expected, so I decided to take a few days to go visit my parents in the southwest corner of the state. It was good to spend some time there (and spend some time sorting through my things, which have been in storage since October 2014, when I sold my condo and began this adventure). It's a beautiful place.

My parents are not city people. They like being out in the middle of nowhere, where this is as crowded as is gets.

I went out with Dad one night to keep him company as he moved irrigation pods on the pasture.

They'd recently undertaken a project to change the old irrigation ditch to pipe, resulting in a more efficient use of water. This raised area used to be a channel.

The sky was quite impressive.

That's the corner of Mesa Verde, where there are cliff dwellings, some of the oldest remaining settlements in North America. Farther in the distance is Ship Rock, in New Mexico.

I grew up riding (my Mom was a trainer), and it was nice to be back on a horse for a little while.

Alpenglow on the La Platas.

It was late April, but no one had told the mountains that. On the way down from Denver I'd taken the more southerly route for safety's sake, but on the way back the roads had cleared enough that I could confidently take one of the more scenic northern routes. These pictures are from Lizard Head Pass.

The next set of pictures are from just outside of Telluride.

It was a good trip!