Nicole, we spent a week one night in a mobile home in Estes Park. It was during a hail storm in early September. The noise of the hail on the roof of the mobile home and trying to navigate through the streets is firmly burned in our mostly pleasant memories of our first trip west to tour Colorado by motorcycle. Snow plows had to be brought in to plow up all that hail so traffic could move the next morning.

Our local fellow saw his shadow so, 6 more weeks of winter. Since we haven't really had winter, it wouldn't bother me at all!! Temps have been above freezing so our snow is almost all gone.

Casey, I would so love to go hiking with you. Not only would I see all that beauty, but maybe I would even learn how to take better pictures of it all. Here is some 'beauty' from my flowers yesterday. First Pennsylvania Leatherwing Beetle I have seen this year. A voracious aphid eater.

Jemdandy, that bug looks pretty sad now... it has been there for a long long time. I used to stop and take timer pictures with me under it, or with a whole group of friends under and around it. I saw it last Friday, when I rode my bike from Pauls Valley back to OKC, after taking the train south. Had a terrific tailwind back.