On The Road

My sister Polly and her husband have been visiting and the four of us have just returned from a two day trip. Most folks would have taken at least three days to do all of the things we did, or maybe even four, but they didn't have that much time and oh there was so much to see!

We departed at the crack of dawn because we knew we had a long day of driving and picture taking ahead of us.

 We headed to southwestern Colorado, intending our first stop to be Tellurdie, a famous ski resort. When I told my sister that a  U.S. clothes designer had a rather large ranch on our way, she ask me to point it out to her. This is a picture of one of the many entrances into Ralph Lauren's 16,000 acre ranch which runs for miles under the backdrop of the beautiful San Juan mountains.I used Polly's picture instead of mine because mine was awful trying to shoot into the glaring morning sun.

Approaching Telluride you drive into a tight box canyon with pretty red cliffs.

Telluride was a small Victorian mining town that has become a winter playground for the rich and famous. Tom Cruise had a house here and presently Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld do. Of course they are up on the ski mountain with large gated resorts. We were down in the little quaint town where many of the historical homes remain.

I of course was more interested in the old homes and pretty gardens

Home after home stopped me in my tracks.

I found that my sister Polly and I seemed to be taking the same pictures, but if you roll back to mine and compare it to this (hers) you will notice that she has a good camera, fancy lenses and a great editing program.

 So I will end this Telluride visit with one of her pictures. We walked both sides of the street before heading back north....not to our place but along a back road that so many people have never seen or even heard of.

If you would enjoy seeing more about Ralph Lauren's ranch go HERE

More to follow!