Is it hot where you are?
Is the summer heat of July beginning to wear you down, make you perspire, and yearn for somewhere cool?
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I thought I'd share some photos I took while on a car trip, from Colorado to Arizona, last October. My husband and I were driving south along State Highway 285, in beautiful Park County, Colorado. The views we saw of distant snow-capped mountains, that surround this 9,000-foot high plateau, took our breath away!
Snow comes early to the higher elevations of 12-14 thousand foot high mountains! Do you feel the cool breezes coming down from those mountains into the valley? Ahhhhh!
The snow-covered mountains were beautiful backdrops for autumn gold leaf aspens...
...and deep green pine trees.
We continued to drive south until we entered central Colorado's Chaffee County.
There we saw more high snow-capped mountains in the distance!
We were entering the Buena Vista area, where we had a view of Mt. Princeton. Mt. Princeton is 14,204 feet high mountain and is part of the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Sawatch Mountain Range contains eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mt. Elbert, which is the highest mountain of the Rocky Mountain Range in North America, at an elevation of 14,440 feet. One would really cool off if they climbed that mountain!
The town of Buena Vista is at an elevation of 7,965 feet, in the Arkansas River Valley. It was founded in 1864 by settlers who felt the abundant water sources made the land suitable for agriculture.
Buena Vista means "beautiful view" in Spanish, which is the perfect name for this area, don't you think?
I hope these snow-capped mountain views made you feel a little cooler this summer day and filled you with a little awe at the amazing beauty of the state of Colorado!
I also recently enjoyed some amazing views in New York City, as my husband and I visited the top of the new One World Trade Center Observatory, on a trip we just returned from. More about that trip in a future blog post!
You might even see elk (or an elk statue) grazing in one of the meadows!
I hope these snow-capped mountain views made you feel a little cooler this summer day and filled you with a little awe at the amazing beauty of the state of Colorado!
I also recently enjoyed some amazing views in New York City, as my husband and I visited the top of the new One World Trade Center Observatory, on a trip we just returned from. More about that trip in a future blog post!
What is your favorite way to stay cool in the summer?
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