My friends Ron and Molly have a house there and they invited us to come for a visit while we are camped in CO. What a beautiful place. It is at a higher altitude -about 8000 ft in town and a little higher at their house. And when we go up by Jeep it is about 9k or so.
The first thing we did was to feed the hummingbirds. They have an abundance of hummers in the area. There are probably 20-30 that feed from Molly's 3 feeders. She pours a little syrup in a red cup and they will come and feed from it while we hold it in our hand. They buzz all around checking us out between drinks. It is one of the most amazing feelings.
I wish I could upload one of our videos, but I can't :( If I can figure out how to load one to YouTube I will post a link.
This year the wild raspberry crop that grows in the mountains near their home is very good. The berries on the table in one of the following photos was what we picked in about an hour. And then we made jam. :) yum.
The picking crew minus me.
Chief raspberry picker and mountain man - aka Ron.
The view from the mountain trail.
Berries! (And Molly)
Jam!
These are some photos of the flowers in bloom around their property.
Yesterday we fished in the reservoir just below their property in their neighborhood. Ron caught one trout and I caught 2!
These are from our fishing outing.
This Mt. Princeton very near Buena Vista. So beautiful and HUGE. It is a little over 14k feet. Molly is quite the hiker and has hiked 2 other "fourteeners" in the area. Yes, all the way to the top.
As we were shopping in downtown he was checking out what was going on.
Sorry Texans but I have to rub it in a little. This was the temp as we got up our final morning there.
As we arrived back at our campground this little fella was there to greet us.
That's all for now!
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