Grandparents Visit

    That was fun! I can't believe this week went so fast! Our Grandparents from out of town are already gone. It seems like they just got here. The first day, we went to a mall, where my Mom and Grandma, went shopping for clothes. 

    Grandpa and I walked around the entire mall, both levels while they shopped. We saw some pretty cool stores in there. We saw this new car called the "Tesla" car, which runs off a Tesla coil. It is one of the safest cars on the market, because it has no engine, so there is more crumple space. 

At the restaurant, our waitress was from Ukraine. It was different to hear a foreign accent, but at the same time, kind of cool.

When we were going home from Lake George, we saw a bald eagle, thanks to our sister in law's sharp eyes! While we were up at the cabin, we watched a movie called "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable, and Claudette Cobert. It was really good, for a movie made in the 30's

Just outside of Woodland Park, I saw the side of Pikes Peak, and had to take a picture, luckily, we were at a stop light, so holding my camera, with a telephoto was much easier.

The sunset near Elizabeth, was amazing! This picture doesn't do it justice. It looked like flames earlier, and then started to fade to this.

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Leaves, Raspberries, and Moss Covered Rocks

Some of these are from Lake George and some are from Rainbow Falls. I hope you enjoy!

The morning I snapped this, I was freezing cold. It was the only leaf around that had fallen on the ground. I really liked how the frost rimmed the leaf.

Later during that hike, I found this spot where the birds seemed to all hang out. I sat there for quite some time, just enjoying the birds singing. Of course, they never came close enough to where I could get and extreme close up.

This was wild raspberry bush nestled in some logs. They are everywhere on the side of the mountain. One bush actually had some fruit on it, but they were much to small to pick.

This was taken in Rainbow Falls. I thought it was interesting, that the plants were growing out of the moss, right on top of the rock. 

 A friend of mine from Texas, was walking with me and pointed out that rock that had the water cascading over it, looked like the bow of a ship. You can't see the general shape very well in this picture, but directly from the side, it looked much like the bow of a ship.

I don't know if it's just me, but, I love rocks with moss on them. I think there is something really cool about them. I had been there before, but I had never really appreciated the way they look, and all the photographic possibilities.

There were rose bushes everywhere around the rocks. Some were above my head, by at least three feet or more. Although, walking past them, and through them, was not very pleasant. I found a lot of stickers stuck in my pants at the end of the hike.

 I am always amazed at how trees can grow straight out of rock! Every time I see them, I think to myself "How can something so easy to break and cut, grow out of solid rock" It is truly amazing!

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