Days 75-80: Northbound through Colorado Springs, we stopped to see the Garden of the Gods, a city park featuring a dramatic cluster of reddish sandstone pinnacles and slabs.
Traveling through Colorado gave us our first chance to visit Lowy and Kyle in their new home in Frederick, which they bought soon after their wedding last October. Some highlights of our visit were biking on the St. Vrain Greenway and around Kyle’s hometown of Longmont, a family barbecue hosted by Lowry and Kyle for us and the Graba clan, side excursions to Rocky Mountain National Park and a special exhibit at the Denver Botanical Garden, a visit with Kyle’s parents Jim and Cheryl, and a local chainsaw sculpture competition. At Rocky Mountain we saw lots of elk and went on a couple of hikes.
The botanical garden is always a pleasant and interesting place to stroll through, and the visiting exhibit of bronze horse sculptures was very impressive. Each original sculpture was built up from various pieces of wood, the pieces were removed and individually cast, molten bronze was poured into the molds, the cooled bronze parts were welded together in the original configuration, and the surface was painted to resemble the original wood.
Great to see you all.
We’ve been following your travels. What a beautiful country we live in! Sounds like your visit with Lowry and Kyle was wonderful.