Looking to the future
It's not as much fun to take it easy and relax all day on a Sunday when you've been relaxing for the entire previous week. Pulling that off requires a monumental amount of laziness, but I'm up to the challenge and can easily do so without the slightest twinge of guilt.
I think I'm resting up because I know June is going to be a very busy month. I need to catch up on my relaxing before June hits, and my relaxing moments will be limited—still possible, but limited.
When I'm facing a month like June which is jampacked with things that I don't want to do, I find it mentally beneficial to skip right over a busy month like that and go straight to a good month that sounds like a lot more fun, which in this case would be July, because I'm hopefully going to be boondocking around Colorado as much as possible during July. And nothing makes me happier than thinking about boondocking in the Colorado mountains during the summer. There are few places in the country with more natural beauty to enjoy and take pictures of than the Rocky Mountains.
One place that's not getting the attention it deserves is my property in the mountains, which I named "Pete's." Back in the days when I was busy and had lots of things on my plate, I looked forward to going out to my property and spending a few relaxing days boondocking in whatever RV I had. I was thankful there was no Internet or phone service at my property because I needed the peace and quiet that my happy place offered.
But now, my blog is important to me, and I need the Internet and phone service to keep me in touch with the rest of the world, so I find it necessary to limit the time I spend at my happy place. But I do miss being there, and I hope it's one of the places I can spend some time this coming July.
Theboondork..... Seldom looking back, ahead is where the future lies.
The lay of the land.
In the foreground is I-25. Going to the right will take you to Denver in about 50 miles, and going to the left will take you to the Springs about 5 miles away.
In the mid-ground, on the far left, you can see the US Air Force Academy football stadium, and on the far right, some little white spots which are the classrooms and barracks for the Academy cadets. You may notice that's quite a chunk of land.
In the background is the Front Range. In the middle of the picture, you will see a mountain with no snow. Hidden behind that mountain is Pike's Peak. Pike's Peak is all that white snow you see behind the dry mountain. Since the dry mountain has trees covering it, that shows it's less than 10,000 feet high since 10,000 feet is about timberline around here. And Pike's Peak behind it is over 14,000 feet high.
An exceedingly rare Bug-eyed Wooly Googlehopper. These Googlehoppers are getting rarer by the day, mainly because their primary source of food is other Googlehoppers.