Monday, June 16, 2008

Colorado Campin'



Matt and Nancy Reilly lived in Hawthorne when I was growing up. My dad worked with Matt at FMC. He sold my dad the old Chevy that we rebuilt when I was in high school.


The threat of losing a limb is cheap and easy was to ascertain a free campsite.


Matt and Nancy were kind enough to feed us a small light meal


Feeding the wildlife is always fun. Unless there is an AHL (angry hippy lady) whining about the harmful effects of saltines on Chip, or is that Dale?



Elk were everywhere. And everywhere the Elk went, hundreds of camera toting tourists were sure to go.


Bear Lake



Hummin Birds



Camo, the Reilly dog, playing fetch with a giant pirate leg



These mountain tops form a shape that is known as "The Mummy"

For those lacking an imagination this is an artists rendition showing it more clearly


but it is up to you to decide what is being highlighted by the arrow



MMM, elk milk


what once was free is now caged
lawless is now lawed
not fenced is fenced
was is really necessary to lockup the ball tree?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I regret a few things about your trip. 1) People caring too much about chipmunks. 2) Mummy penis arrows. 3) Ball tree fascism.
Other than that it looks cool.
I regret one thing about this comment. 1) I'm pretty sure I used the word "fascism" wrong in this context but I had already gone to all the trouble trying to spell it (not easy) that it seemed like a waste of time to change it.
I think the fact that I'm worried about wasting time says something towards my increasing awareness of time, more specifically my own youth and mortality. I could care less about a chipmunk getting all fat and dead off salty snacks. We all die chipmunk. That's science. Just try to enjoy the time you have. What I mean is, eat that delicious treat my man.
That goes for all of you.
That is all.

Anonymous said...

this is so illegal immigrants can't take pictures with there families by the ball tree.

kt