8 posts tagged “colorado”

Our Front Door: Rio Grande Valley

Cabin in Escalante Canyon, Colorado

Stone Doorway into the Canyon

 This last photo is Not an "entry" for the doorway photo quest, but I wanted to share what this unusual structure which we came across looked like from the outside:

Stone Canyon Structure; Colorado

I've been sick with a nasty, yucky respirator illness this past week or so... Not done much but cough, and when I had the strength, uploaded some old but nice photos on our Flickr account. If you have a bit, take a look! Some nice ones of Colorado, New Mexico, Mexico and S. Texas.  Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8135007@N03/

Chocolate Avenue

Dark Chocolate, to be precise... We saw this street sign while visiting my parents in Montrose, Colorado last

August. There is a Russel-Stover Factory in town, and "Chocolate Ave." is the street right behind the factory.

Couldn't resist driving back by and snapping this shot.  Although I'm not partial to their particular candies, I do

loved the road sign!  I'm more of a dark Doves chocolate fan myself... Good for both heart and soul...

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Cloudy Morning Southwest

Drinking hot coffee

While children yet sleep

Curved in wrinkled bundles;

Bacon crackles on the stovetop

As black ravens caw, signaling awake

The new day.

The desert begins

Slowly folding woven blankets,

Stretching rusty colors, while sunlight yet

Struggles to penetrate a deep cover

Won by many layers worn upon

Grey cotton sky.

Cottonwood leaves

Hang in drowsy silence,

Drunken still after yesterday’s potent

Gift of rainfall; even the mighty canyons

Call more slowly, this rare cloudy

Morning, while coyote sleeps.

25 August 1999 ~ 7:30 AM ~ Wednesday

Moab, Utah

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Well, again the photos were not from our Utah trip. The top one came from a drive up 'The Hill" to Los Alamos, NM on our return visit there in August 2006. Just when we got up the mountain, the rainclouds burst and poured down more rain that I'd ever seen previously in that region, all in a very short while. The bottom shot was on that same trip, while driving from Chama, NM to Montrose, CO to visit my folks. The rainbow was found just past the summit of Molas Pass on the Hwy. from Durango to Silverton and beyond... 

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Desert Dawn

Ancient

Adobe red skies,

High pueblo cities connect

Earth to turquoise sky; people who

Climb long wooden ladders, breathe prayers East;

Morning scented piñon & sagebrush,

Last night washed fresh 

By late summer

Rain.

26 August 1999 ~ Thursday ~ Early Morning

Moab, Utah

Well, I didn't have an Utah "red dawn" photo, so had to do with a Colorado "pink sunset" instead. Oh well, You sort of get the picture anyway...  It was very lovely!

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Canyonland

Canyonland

Everything

About this land stands ancient,

Worn, weathered.

Everything

About it breaths

New,

Young, fresh.

Red sandstone desert,

Dry arroyos,

Sheer canyon walls

Late

Summer

Flash floods

Which change forever

Precarious

Shapes,

Marking

Each season

With new landscapes,

Shifting one

Grain

Of limestone

At a time,

Displaying fresh sculpture,

New found faces

Carved from its very

Soul.

1 September 1999 ~ Wednesday

Utah ~ While Leaving for Colorado

Unfortunately, although we took some good photos during this trip, it was 'pre-tech' shots and I don't have them on our computer, so had to borrow a tourist brochure photo.  I have been going back over some old poems, some written 10 years ago, and came across a series from our trip from Colorado to Utah. My folks took the girls and I in their motor home and I drove the Cherokee jeep. We stayed at a campground in Moab and toured the awesome sites around the region, visiting Arches National Park, Dead Horse Canyon and Canyonlands, to name a few. Thought my friend Kathy might enjoy some of these pieces, since she now finds hersefl transplanted from Texas to Utah.