(I was going to add another image, but the blogger has a mind of its own and will not accept another upload. So that is the way it is.)
The unshown image was of Long's Peak, a high mountain over 14,000 feet in elevation. It is one of the famous land marks in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). The park is vast, would compare with Grand Canyon National Park in size, except this one goes up and GCNP goes down. We saw hundreds of elk. In fact as we were driving back to the condo after dark elk were on the highway and we nearly hit two deer as they decided to cross in front of us. As we were driving home and the sun was setting there was a lovely coloration to the sky (see picture). Dan Allred calls the bird shown in a picture a "picnic robber." It is very aggressive in trying to get tidbits of food from the tourists. In the higher elevations there was some snow in the shady enclaves where the sun had not reached. Soon the area will be totally covered in snow, and the road over the top of the mountains in the park will be closed. At one entrance to the park is Grand Lake and at the other is Estes Park. Both are well established to extract money from the tourists. We had a wonderful lunch in Estes Park, and we lolled around the lake in a roadside park at Grand Lake. We fed some geese and ducks while lolling (just like back home).
The unshown image was of Long's Peak, a high mountain over 14,000 feet in elevation. It is one of the famous land marks in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). The park is vast, would compare with Grand Canyon National Park in size, except this one goes up and GCNP goes down. We saw hundreds of elk. In fact as we were driving back to the condo after dark elk were on the highway and we nearly hit two deer as they decided to cross in front of us. As we were driving home and the sun was setting there was a lovely coloration to the sky (see picture). Dan Allred calls the bird shown in a picture a "picnic robber." It is very aggressive in trying to get tidbits of food from the tourists. In the higher elevations there was some snow in the shady enclaves where the sun had not reached. Soon the area will be totally covered in snow, and the road over the top of the mountains in the park will be closed. At one entrance to the park is Grand Lake and at the other is Estes Park. Both are well established to extract money from the tourists. We had a wonderful lunch in Estes Park, and we lolled around the lake in a roadside park at Grand Lake. We fed some geese and ducks while lolling (just like back home).
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