Morley CO - townsite

This is the Morley town site in Southern Colorado. You can see the old spanish mission church from I 25 at about mm 4. Originally part of the Santa Fe Trail over Raton Pass. (NM - CO line) The site has the ruins of the St. Aloysious Church, Known locally as the "old Morley Church" There are some foundations from other buildings. There used to be a coal mine and town on this site until the mine closed in the 1950's.

dove thought of the day

"Don't stress - think, and this too shall pass"

Oregon

Waterfalls, moss, vines & Green everywhere. This is western Oregon. The central and eastern areas aren't like this. They are dryer. High dessert and mountains. lots of sage brush and wide open ranches.

Trip to Oregon

Went on a trip to Oregon with T. Very lush and wet. well it rained about 80% of the time we were there. Good sleeping weather. Got in some fresh air and shopping while not working. I like western Oregon. I like the rain forest effect. T wouldn't do to well; as he is susceptible to depression. Oh, well we can always visit.

Old Oregon tree

Oregon

Columbia River Gorge

Oregon

mossy trees in Oregon

Glenwood Canyon repairs

well, the repairs are underway for the Glenwood Canyon section of I70. One lane will be open each way until the road and canyon walls are repaired.

Glenwood Canyon Rock Slide

Glenwood Springs Canyon is about 2 hours west of my place.

A major rock slide left two large holes in the interstate just west of the hanging lake exit. one hole is 10 x 20 feet. it will be days before the interstate is open again. some of the boulders that fell was semi size! lucky there was already an unrelated accident in a different location of the canyon, so the road was already closed.

Welcome to March

Well, today was a nice day. so March came in like a lamb. Darn. hope there isn't another bad snow storm. I'm tired of it all. Was in Phoenix recently too. upper 60's low 70's. love arizona in the winter. it's very green from all the recent rains they have been getting. was a t-storm the first night we got there. hail too! could tell it's been raining a lot. it smelled fresh when the rain was done. normally it smells like dusty dirt after a rain here in the west. nice for a change :)