More From Colorado!

Right now, I'm sitting in something that looks like a treehouse, with glass all around, so that I can watch the impossibly tall evergreens fill up with the falling snow.  Last night, with my contact lenses out, the big blobs of snow on limbs low to high on the trees (and I was looking from their tops down) looked like a gigantic snow lava lamp!  We snowmobiled to the top of the San Juans yesterday where we saw extreme skiing (death-defying, and death is not always

defied:  5 skier deaths this year... maybe they should call the "sport" extreme stupidity?)... the remains of an old mining camp and the first power lines in America, they had electric lights just a few days before Paris lit theirs, amazing!  They measure their snowfall here in feet, not inches.  If anyone's interested, we saw the mountain peak that appears on the Coors beer cans, the old Sheridan Hotel, which gives you that Wild West feel, learned there are 350 miles of tunnels from old mines in the Telluride area, met nice folks, ice skated (if you could call our moves that), and continued to try to inhale enough oxygen at altitude.  With the Olympics on TV, it feels sort of like we are in Vancouver! Bought LED sparkly snowflake zipper pulls for my grandkids, and alas, the last ski, the last gondola ride, the last shopping, the last of the $ on the credit card are all imminent.  All good things must come to an end, but I leave you with the encouragement that America is sooooo beautiful:  get out and see it!  Bob and I may have a very skimpy retirement, but we will have memories of snowflakes as big as my thumb, standing where history was made in spite of all odds against it, and smiley-face moments of grandkids with glow-red cheeks and smiles as wide as Colorado.

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[Julia Kelly]

So glad you enjoyed your visit! And thanks for the email- don't know why blogger comment is not working! Am enjoying reading your blog too.