Adventuring!

This is basically our "backyard."  This is what we see when we look down the road and up the hill out our front door.  This is where we go when we want to get out of the house and do a bit of adventuring!  This is also something to miss when we leave here.  We can only hope we can find things just as rewarding wherever we end up going!

This last one has to be my favorite of the group!  Coming from the plains where you can see forever in every direction I often feel closed in when I look up at the mountains.  As beautiful as our particular mountains happen to be there is still that bit of panic of not being able to see as far as I would like.  This spot proves it all wrong, looking out this way gives me that peace only wide open spaces can give a girl from the plains.  I guess you just have to go to the top of the mountain and look down to see forever!

Something to Miss

Everyday when I walk out my front door, or sit in my back yard, or look out my bedroom window this is what I get to see.  Now, not everyday do they look like this but here lately they do.  That is snow laying up there in a thick cloud, you can not even see the very top of the mountain.  In the summer I get to see lots of green and in the fall I get to see lots of golds and red.  It is beautiful year round and I will have to say this is something I will miss seeing on a daily basis.  These mountains have taught me a new found love for the outdoors.  That is not something I ever thought I would say as I grew up on the plains and I love the wide open spaces.  I lived in Ft Collins, CO for awhile and there are of course mountains there but even then I still loved the plains more than I loved the mountains.  But after living here for 4 years and loving just about every minute of it I can now say that I am a lover of both.  I don't know if I will ever love any other mountains than the beautiful Wind Rivers but for now that is enough.