I never ceased to be amazed at the things you can discover by wandering around Colorado a little. Nancy and I went for a hike today with some friends in
Roxborough State Park. However, instead of taking the popular trails around the center of the park, we took off on the Elk Meadow trail and found all kinds of interesting things. Normally you don't see wood carved eagles out in the forest. This one was at the entrance to some private property.
These nice, but very old stables were interesting since they used the rock as the back wall. Why not? It saves lumber I suppose.
Then, as we were hiking along the road (at least a mile from the visitor center) we noticed a couple of rock patio's perched high up in the red rock formation. Being the curious hikers we are, we decided to try them on for size. They fit really well and the scenery from up there was magnificent.
Not too far from the patio was this marble chair sitting in the middle of the forest. She was so fancy sitting in her chair that the water in her bottle turned into Perrier!
A little further away we found this! I have to say this was a very strange place. These lions were carved out of wood and placed on the edge of the rock sneaking up and looking at their prey standing below.
On the trail we found this track. We then debated on whether it was a bear track or a mountain lion track. It seemed too big to be a mountain lion, however bears can't retract their claws like cats. There are no claws marks in front of this one. Hmmmm... One big lion?
This fox let us get pretty close up. At first, I thought he was asleep. Then we realized he was just trying to fool a mouse. We watched him catch the mouse and enjoy him for lunch. No really, that's true!
Before we left, Nancy had to enjoy the patio one more time. It's not surprising that women live longer than men. Look at how long they're girls. Now that I've learned to live life, most of it is gone!
These nice, but very old stables were interesting since they used the rock as the back wall. Why not? It saves lumber I suppose.
Then, as we were hiking along the road (at least a mile from the visitor center) we noticed a couple of rock patio's perched high up in the red rock formation. Being the curious hikers we are, we decided to try them on for size. They fit really well and the scenery from up there was magnificent.
Not too far from the patio was this marble chair sitting in the middle of the forest. She was so fancy sitting in her chair that the water in her bottle turned into Perrier!
A little further away we found this! I have to say this was a very strange place. These lions were carved out of wood and placed on the edge of the rock sneaking up and looking at their prey standing below.
On the trail we found this track. We then debated on whether it was a bear track or a mountain lion track. It seemed too big to be a mountain lion, however bears can't retract their claws like cats. There are no claws marks in front of this one. Hmmmm... One big lion?
This fox let us get pretty close up. At first, I thought he was asleep. Then we realized he was just trying to fool a mouse. We watched him catch the mouse and enjoy him for lunch. No really, that's true!
Before we left, Nancy had to enjoy the patio one more time. It's not surprising that women live longer than men. Look at how long they're girls. Now that I've learned to live life, most of it is gone!
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