No Place Like Home

My beloved auntie read the blog recently, and sent me a text asking… ‘Are you leaving Montana?’

While my blogs have focused on the beauty and splendor of Colorado, the two states are so vastly different. I think that is what intrigues me so much about being here, on the western slope of Colorado. I expected Colorado to be just like Montana, but it is completely opposite! The mountains are so high they are above the tundra line, and so Colorado mountains have none of the beautiful pine trees that Montana is so famous for. Where Montana is green and lush with foliage and trees and grass, Colorado is arid, with rocks, massive boulders, clay and desert. Both so different, but both so vast and beautiful!

On my return from Grand Junction this afternoon, I saw a sign that read ‘Point of Interest’. I have come to realize that these are much like the brown signs in Europe… definitely worth stopping for! So off we went, my dog, and I, on a road less traveled.

We drove for some time through the Escalante Canyon. It was beautiful and rugged, much like the pictures show, but the pictures seem somehow to be lacking the splendor of being surrounded by many of the boulders that have toppled over the years, while many still stand. I found myself trying to tread lightly less I shake one loose.😂😂.

As I peruse the highways and byways of Western Colorado, I see so many differences, but I see so much that is the same. Farms and cows and horses and sheep. ‘Fresh Eggs For Sale’ signs on the road, John Deer tractors and equipment out in the fields and on winter’s respite. Fences in all stages of repair…and kind, solid people who nod and wave when you pass by on a country road. When I passed my first random vehicle on my way down the canyon, I was pulled over to take yet another picture. The driver slowed to a stop and asked, ‘Not lost, are ya?’

With a wave of my arm I said, ‘No, there’s just so much pretty here I don’t want to miss any of it!’

He gave me a grin and said, ‘Enjoy!’ I imagine this man on the tractor was him The resemblance is there. 😊

For as much as the two states are different, and for as much as they are the same, I am thoroughly loving my time here in Colorado, but I look forward to the time I am back home again in Montana.💕