Remember September {Part 1}

Last Saturday, on September 20th, I told Gregg that it would be a sin if we didn't get out to hike through the golden leaves.  Callie echoed my statement with her new word-of-the-day: "hike!", and, not wanting to be sinners, of course, we headed out on a nearby trail.  It started in the neighborhood of Homestead, which is just above Gregg's office in Edwards.  We walked up a trail to the water tower, and then kept walking up, up, up till we made it to a large open sage-brush meadow.  Then we walked a little further into the trees and turned left off the trail till we were on a sort-of ridge, overlooking Arrowhead Ski Area.  Part sagebrush, part shade, and plenty of burs sticking in our socks, this was our stopping point - perfect for crawling and standing practice and photo-ops galore.  Perhaps the best way to spend a Saturday morning in September (and to stay on that Straight and Narrow).

And so it begins.

Lovely Edwards, CO.

Lovely Lake Creek.  This was the point of the hike where
we were hearing multiple elk bugles from somewhere
over the ridge.

Where the sagebrush grows.

There is sunshine in my soul today.

View of Arrowhead from the "top".

I think that might be New York Mountain in the background?

Beautiful baby blues.

I love my fam.

Standing practice.

Having fun with the weeds.

More standing practice.