An afternoon in the mountains

This was the view from the spot where I stopped to eat lunch and journal. Love it. There was something about it that I liked. One mountain, divided by a small road, on one side there are lots of trees and snow and on the other side, just ugly desert with a speckling of trees. I'm sure there is a logical reason for this division, like the sun probably doesn't hit the tree filled side as much as the desert side. But forget that. I saw it more like the coming together of the barren and the bountiful- of beauty and pain. It's still all part of the same beautiful scene. I sat on a bench for a couple of hours here and read and just soaked in the sun.

I look hot, I know. It was chilly up there! Thank you grandma for my new warm scarf! Let me tell you that while I was sitting on my rump reading, I saw tons of people biking up the mountain. Quite the variety of people- and what amazed me or rather annoyed me the most was that some of them would ride up the mountain having a perfectly normal conversation like it was nothing to bike up a freaking mountain! Jerks.

After an hour or so of reading and gazing from my bench on the hill, two little deer calmly walked across the hill below me. So cute!

Here are a few more pics for your viewing pleasure....

This is Denver That is the Coors Brewery plant in between the two table mountains
and me!