September 8th.... Friday

Let's see.... Today we had breakfast at Poppycock in downtown Aspen, I recommend the pastatio home made sausage. Then to find the very difficult to find John Denver Sanctuary. For anyone that is looking for it it is in the Aspen Art Museum. Once we found it... it was magical. We walked around the several stones that have his songs carved into them. I began to look back on the times when I heard each one of those songs... The moments spent with T so many years ago when we first met and fell in love. Yes alright I cried, it was schmoopy and romantic... and it brought back alot of beautiful memories... T turned the corner and dammit I could not hid it from him that I got teary eyed... But I looked in his eyes... and they were just as teary. I wonder if John Denver realized how many people he touched? Did he realize how many lovers fell in love listening to him. Did he realize how many people he effected? It is a very special place.
From there we drove to Longmount to the Radison. We stopped many places taking more pictures.

For now I will leave you with one of his songs carved into the rocks.

September 07, 2006

All I can say is WOW!
The drive to Snowmass was breathtaking. We drove up CO 82, it took us through San Isabel, we stopped by Twin Lakes, I saw a hawk flying high over us. As we were driving up we came to this rock formation. To me it looks like a Giant fell asleep underground and shoved his foot out for all to see, to T, he just is calling this the foot hills.... See the pic and you decide what it is.We started our drive up to Independence Pass. We started to see white stuff up on some of the peaks, I thought a first it was rocks. No Wrong! We got up to the Continental Divide at 12,035 ft and yes SNOW. Man it was cold up there, I did not feel my nose, and ears for a bit. I had not been that cold in a long long time. It's difficult to describe the beauty of the place. The strong and rugged but yes so fragile environment in such a delicate balance. On our drive up , we came up the road to deer crossing, I believe 2 adult females, one younger one and one mature buck. I tried to get a good picture of them. This is the best I could get, I believe it is the young one. Finally made it Aspen. Aspen is beautiful, streets were very busy with people bustling about. Snowmass, is pretty also, however between the instructions from Triple A sucking and road construction, correction no, road distruction, we had to take a detour to find our motel, the Snowmass Mountain Chalet. It was very cloudy and I could not see the stars at all, I got a sliver of the moon trying to break between the clouds. We had dinner at Zane's Tavern. Not anything to write home about average pub food. Tomorrow, Longmount

2:00 AM Sept 5th

We will be heading out later today on our fall vacation. First stop will be Palo Duro Canyon, then Raton NM, next Snowmass, Aspen, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Longview, and then home. I wanted to have Tim's sweater finished before we left... well the back is finished. I am working on the center front panel. I still have to pack, run several errands. etc. I want to get some very good photos of Palo Duro Canyon for L's Diary. I really want to work on it get it printed and send it to the rest of the family.