A weekend getaway in Colorado

Traveled around the state last weekend visiting or passing by the Collegiate Peaks near Salida, the Great Sand Dunes National Park, Comanche National Grasslands, Two Buttes, and the Camp Amache National Landmark site, to name just a few!

A Trip to Arizona

When you’re in the desert, you look into infinity…. It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

-David Lean

 

GRAND CANYON SUNSET

Grand Canyon

BACKLIT TREES

Palatki Heritage Site

DESERT BLOOMS

Near Chapel of the Holy Cross

SCENIC VIEW

Near Chapel of the Holy Cross

CROSS

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

SEDONA BLUE

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

SEDONA PLAZA

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

SEDONA SHOPS

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

STAIRWAY

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

TUNNEL

Tlaquepaque Village in Sedona

SEDONA SUNSET

Sunset on Sedona

VORTEX TREE

Sedona Vortex

YUCCA

Yukka

Rustic beauty

Rustic (ruhs-tik) :  def.  1. Suitable for the country.  2. Made of rough limbs of trees.  3. Of or resembling country folk.  4. Lacking in social graces or polish.  5. Simple, artless or unsophisticated.  6. Uncouth, crude, boorish, awkward.  7. Having rough surfaces.  8. Lacking refinement or elegance.  9. Charmingly simple.

I think there is an inherent allure to battered old barns, wooden fence posts or rusty nails.  Charmingly simple.