Thanks for the challenge, Vicky! Here's the main story from today's road trip. :)

We were in between late winter storms and the roads were dry. At the top of La Veta Pass, I suggested we take the time to explore an old road that showed on the map. Not easy to find with my phone, but we found the road, snowed in, and noted it for a future summertime adventure.

I made a book like this one time, published on Blurb and gift for friends, that created paper dolls with lots of wardrobe changes. Crazy hard to get it all lined up. :giggle4: Then they didn't want to cut it up because it was, a book! I'll have to think. The doll has been on my fridge all these...

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It had been down below zero for more than a few mornings, and I didn't expect I'd think it, but I was enjoying winter more than ever. My fingers froze as I opened the latch on the camera, and when there were 1,550 videos it meant we had fed a lot of very cold critters around the clock.

The tiny bunny sat next to my 4" slice of agate that I turned into a tiny feeder, and they were the same size! I saw one of them this size in the dark in the wee hours when it was below zero and snowing. He shivered and actually fell over, and burrowed under deep snow to find food.

I hope Jenn adds more to her incredibly creative metal collection, but she has a fabulous start, and I have now joined the "Eye Heart" movement myself. Social media has changed me, that's for sure. I wanted to make a freebie cluster so more people would try to say more with emojis, and of course...

When I saw this preview for the video, I gasped. My reaction was so strong you thought something was wrong. This was during one of our coldest days with temperatures close to zero. We were so glad we were providing food, but I never expected a fight like I saw, for access to it.

You are very welcome to come along, but just know that our Jeep only fits 2 people. :waving3::airplane:

On Thursday we saw elk in the same place as on Wednesday, and a few deer, which we rarely see, were near the entrance. It was another warm and mostly sunny morning with above normal temperatures, but with wind and snow flurries, and a change in the weather were coming.

We also saw this small herd of elk west of Sheep Lakes, and the scene was so beautiful in the morning sun it seemed like a fairy tale to me. It would be nice if they were in this part of the park more often because the background is so much more interesting than the red-twigs are.

Happy Valentine's Day, Dahling! :heartpumpred::heartpumppink::heartpumppink::heartpumpred::heartpumppink::heartpumppink::heartpumpred::heartpumpred:

It took a month. We weren't sure I could do it, but I came up with a way to handle 800 videos a day and still do the other things that I enjoy. I loved seeing the comings and goings, the night photography and I really treasured some of those squirrel interactions.

Thanks for the challenge, Anke! I make my whole book in the past tense, but almost never put in anything about an earlier time frame, but I was glad I did this one. It made me hopeful. :giggle4:

Economists were making pretty dire predictions about Trump's changes in our government, and we talked about how we'd be fine no matter what. I thought it was the perfect time to look back at 2020. We didn't have the best memories, but we did manage to find the good in all of it.

We enjoyed watching the sun melting away the ice and snow layer all week, but also knew more snow was coming soon. Temperatures were above normal all week, and the snow was melting fast in a lot of places, yet there were very few openings in the river's ice inside the park.

They said gusty winds, rain and snow for Wednesday, and we saw Longs Peak shrouded with lovely pink clouds at sunrise. Then not much further, three moose moved off the road and made their way up a really steep, rocky slope. The first moose sighting for us east of the Divide.

On Friday, before we headed off the mountain we drove just to Sheep Lakes so I could get one more look at the pink clouds. The elk were in the valley, for an extra reward. We were still packed and on the road by 8 am. I texted Keely and told her we planned to be back in November.

Clouds were dark and the sun was brilliant. The lighting was gorgeous! I would describe the yellows as acidic, and the lighting reminded me of one other time I saw a similar thing and wished so much at the time that I could get photos of it. On that day the clouds were almost black.