Home at last!

The trip home Wednesday seemed like a long one; didn't get in till 8:30 p.m!

Part of the reason was that I lollygagged in Ouray in the morning. Shops don't open until 10, so I worked on the previous day's pictures, had a great, leisurely breakfast at the Backstreet Bagel & Deli and went up the Camp Bird Road past the ice park further than we were able to go in March.

Probably just as well Sandy wasn't with me on the trip up the mountain ... she is a little edgy about roads on the edge, and this one is!

Downtown Ouray is a pretty pedestrian-friendly zone, and then there was this stagecoach coming up the street! What you don't see is the semi just at the right, unloading in the middle of the street.

Telluride was not as much fun as in March ... in fact, it was starting to get a little squirrelly with traffic in advance of the Bluegrass Festival this weekend. I did like the accessorizing someone had done on the statue of the schoolgirl waiting at the bus stop.

Coming over Lizard Head Pass, things were pretty grey. It was snowing on peaks adjacent to Lizard Head itself and started to rain when I got to Rico, where practically everything was closed down.

Finally, as I was heading home through the lower Dolores River Valley, I looked in my rearview mirror and immediately pulled over to enjoy this view of the Redburn Ranch, green grass, munching bossie-cows and the blue-black clouds beyond! One of those just-before-sunset moments we often get, when the setting sun has outrun the storm and sends its golden rays back in underneath. Gorgeous! Always a beautiful place to live! tv