South Fork, Colorado

Now normally I'd say that I'm a city girl.  I enjoy going to the moviers, restaurants and the occasional spa trip or pedicure, all of which I chalk up to "civilization".  But deep down inside I think I harbor the hopes and dreams of a country sort of life.  Wide open spaces, lots of lakes and streams, and trees everywhere sit at the back of my mind as the perfect place to live.    Land expansive enough to raise alpaca, and to have as many roving bunnies as my heart may desire!  Space for my puppy to run, ears flopping in the wind, bounding through fields of grass and wild flowers.  A place where people still invite you in for some iced tea and lemon bars, and where smiling at a stranger and saying hello doesnt surprise you, or them.

(Please note that my dream country has no large bugs or mosquitoes)

This weekend I went up to Southwestern Colorado to visit my inlaws, and got a taste of this life.  They live in South Fork which is a tiny town with one stop light and lots of ranches all over at a dizzying elevation of about 8,000 feet.  We stayed at a lodge complete with the taxidermy's dream projects, several bucks, a buffalo head, and a full mountain lion's pelt mounted on the walls. 

Saturday was the rafting trip - which was much more calm than whitewater.  The area has been suffering a drought and the water level was pretty low so we spent a lot of the time paddling.  The occasional fly fisherman  and rogue bunny were the only wildlife out that day.

Slide show of the Colorado trip

On the knitting front, Orangina is about 60% done, and I just received the Knitpicks Options interchangeable needle set.  I've put Butterfly onto some size 8s and will have a review in the next post.

Comments

[Hilari]

Cool photos! hard to believe there's still land that looks like that! Although all that green must be blinding to your poor soCal eyes!

[Heidi]

So puuurdy! Uh...except for the dead wall critters.

[spaazlicious]

Eeek, their eyes were looking straight at me!
I like the sky photo bestest.

[Megann]

Gorgeous pictures. They remind me of back home in Oregon. Thanks for sharing them.