another beautiful week in Colorado

I realize that the title of this post could be the title every week now. It is really beautiful here.

Here are 2 more small galleries of family and the Cache la Poudre River.

This is my favorite photo.



Nancy has been occupied with getting started with her new job and getting ready for a minor operation. She has the surgery tomorrow, it is to remove a painful cyst in her ear.

While she's been away during the day, I've been spending a lot of time with our kids, which has been great. Corben's play is really fun. He loves to cuddle, get tickled, butt heads and crash into me while I lay on the floor. Emma likes to keep tabs on him and let me know when he's into something she doesn't approve of. I need to take her fishing again.

In the galleries above I had some photos of a little trip we took up the Cache la Poudre River Canyon this week. We left for the drive at 5PM and got home around 8PM. I would have 100 more photos of breathtaking views, but we needed to keep moving after we stopped by the river because it was getting late for the kids.

I love that -- going for a drive after a day's work and being able to see such beautiful places.

I wish I could describe the smell by the river. You smell sagebrush, pine, and the crisp air drawn from from the mountains by the cool rushing water and it makes you inhale deeply again and again. If I could bottle that smell I would be a rich man.

Another thing I love is describing the drive -- not only the views, but the places. "We drove up to Ted's Place, then headed up the Poudre. We went south on Stove Prairie Road then back east on Rist Canyon Road. We split south in Bellvue and headed up over the north dam and along the east ridge of Horsetooth"

This page on Microsoft's Terraserver site actually shows most of where we drove. I really dig topo maps. Being able to look at a 2-dimensional piece of paper and make sense of it in a 3-dimensional world is pretty cool.

Tomorrow I'll wake up and get to look at the mountains again.