Life. ~ 2 comments.
Heading back to Denver today with mixed feelings. It will be great to see my family again, but I always miss being at Pete's.
This week has given me a range of feelings from the very start. The wind blew longer and harder than I ever recall seeing in the past. South Park, as this area is called, is famous for being windy, but it's usually perfectly fine until about 11 or 12 o'clock. Then it gets windy until about five, and then it's calm again, so you know what to expect and how to deal with it. But this week, the wind blew most of the time, a lot harder than normal, and sometimes even all night. So that made life at Pete's not only different but also difficult to deal with.
On the other hand, I've never seen as many bighorn sheep as I've seen on this trip. On the first two days, I saw the same small herd in two different places, and on the third day, I saw a completely different, larger herd in a place different from the first two. All of which gave me plenty of opportunities to take pictures while standing outside the camper, and that's largely what I'm here for.
So now fate finds me once again in the spacious parking lot of the Bass Pro Shop in Colorado Springs. It's here that I filled up at a gas station just down the street, and tomorrow, after a restful sleep, I will head back to Denver, carrying with me some great memories and some not-so-great ones, all of which blend seamlessly into something we humans call... "Life".
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These baby Bighorn Sheep are just as cute as can be, but their springtime shedding is making them look pretty scruffy.
The Twins.
The herd got pretty close to me before they noticed I was there, then they trotted off into the forest.