Colorado - Alberta falls

Constantly, she's really clumsy. =P

Okay, okay, I'll stop the lame jokes and get to the pictures.

On the trail . . .

 We saw a sparkly rock.

And some ferns!

This is the little grove of aspen I was tellin' ya'll about.

My hapless victim . . .! Who got her picture taken many times during the trip. =)

(Actually she's not that hapless, she liked 'em and needs a picture for her Etsy store anyway.)

  Logically, we saw the falls coming down before we actually saw the real waterfall . . .

Which was not quite deafening, but still loud enough we had to speak up a notch.

The spray carried over on the wind, nice and refreshing, and it was fun just to sit and watch the water spill over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over endlessly. I'm so glad God thought up waterfalls.



What are sisters for, except to make faces at?  =P

The water was gushing, rushing, pushing . . . flying along at speeds too fast for my camera to capture clearly.

    Except for this one, it's awesome!

    The view was rather nice . . .

     Honestly, I think this little guy just wanted his picture taken.

     He scurried out from wherever he was, paused . . .*click* . . .  and then scampered off to resume his normal activities.

While we waited for a shuttle bus, we saw a female elk, calmly grazing in the parking lot.


If someone tried I bet they could come up with several funny captions for this picture, it's full of possibilities!



 She's rather muddy, makes you wonder what she had been doing that morning.

Colorado - Aspen trees

As we drove through and to parks around Colorado we would see little puddles of gold, scattered here and there among the pines.

There were massive amounts of them at Maroon bells . . .

( Those are THE Maroon bells behind the trees, btw)



On the way out of Aspen we stopped by this aspen grove, just to take pictures. =)

These trees are so COOL!

On the trail to Alberta falls at one point we hiked through a small grove of aspen; it was very picturesque.
Rocks at the base of their trunks, a few spruce trees mixed in . . .



This one is neat because my best friends name is Marisa and mine is Jenny!

Colorado!

Ahh, to spend a little more than a week in Colorado...that's splendiferous!
We got stay in a comfy condo in Breckenridge, with a neat little wilderness of it's own, while we visited state parks. The Maroon bells in Aspen, Pikes peak outside Colorado springs and we even went up to Estes park to see the Alberta falls and a very clear Bear lake.
I took lots of pictures. Yes, yes, yes.
They don't call it Colorado for no reason!  =D
Having said that, it might take a little while for me to gather them and figure out the most logical way to share them.
Anyway, here's a preview of what we got to see:



Sign says it all.  =D



Representing all the ponds, lakes and waterfalls we saw.



Aspen trees!

 

And of course. . . Mountains.