Flowers

This started out to be a post of ten flowers, but after looking at them I am only putting on four. I will have to retake the others, I will blame it on Tank, (he is not going to be reading this). It is amazing what wonderful flowers you have in the high country or maybe I just take time to look at them. I will be posting more flowers later. Our high so far this summer has been over 80.

The Lodge & Bath House

This is the newest building on the Ranch

The Lodge & Bath House

Kitchen in the Lodge

How do you like the wood stove? It is not wood it is gas.

Kitchen in the Lodge

Bed Room

This Bed Room is up stairs. There are six twin beds in the Lodge and it also has an outside bathroom.

The Lodge Bed Room

The Lodge Living Room

View from the Lodge

Home made Ice Cream

This is how home made ice cream makes? This is what happens that you can not see.

Ice Cream

What am I doing?

Someone has to take pictures.

How to stand up a 30 ft flagpole

Well here it is

San Juan Overlook by Wilma

I have taken many pictures of this overlook in my trips to CO & still I stop & take more. So this time Wilma took the picture & it may be the best yet.

San Juan Overlook

Where we are going today

This area has a base of 100 inches of snow in Janurary

Wolf Creek Ski Area

Snow

Yes, we have found snow in July, there should be some here all year.

Snow in July

On the way up

We came upon the trees on the way up to Lobo Towers.

Trees on the way up

Look at the blue sky here at 11,774 ft. & the trees show the harsh conditions

Trees at the top

Flowers

We have been treated to some very pretty wild flowers.

Wild Flowers

Blue Bells

Wild Rose

Party Time

We had a wedding here at the Ranch they rented the whole Ranch for the event.

Party Time

By the River

As you can see they put the tent close to the river. Look at the chains they used to keep the tent up.

By the River

Inside the Big Top

The theme for the wedding was Spanish, there was around forty people here for it.

Inside the Big Top

A Road Trip to Sally Overlook

We went on this road trip 7-4-09 Sat. it was a total of 22 miles, it took us about 2 1/2 hours. A nice trip.

Sally Overlook

Wilma

Wilma has Tank on the end of the line, but he did not want to be in the picture.

Wilma

Piedra River From Sallie Overlook

I do not know why it is called Sallie Overlook and not Sallie's Overlook, it does not matter it was worth the trip. Our GPS would not work because of the clouds, so I do not know the evelation, but it was way up there.

No Trail Here

Piedra River

This is a part of the Piedra River where we hiked the other day. It started to rain on us while we were here, will it just misted. The road getting here was very ruff, I was glad we were on the 4-wheeler.

Looking at the Piedra River

Tree

This is one old tree, it looks like a Bristlecone Pine, but I do not believe they do not grow at this elevation. I think they only grow around 10,000 ft. we are at 8500. The Bristlecone Pine can have part of the roots die & that part of the top will die also, which is why it lives such a long time. Part of the tree may die and it will still long a long time.

How Old do You Think This Tree is?