Catch-up: March visitors

In March and April we were blessed with a wonderful series of visitors. First, Mor-mor came out for some one-on-one time with Alice while Tom and Edith were in Salt Lake City on their volunteer trip and Gretchen was teaching. We are blessed to have relatives that will come even across the continent to help with childcare in a pinch.

Then Rebecca Bailey came out from Boston for spring break.

Rebecca got to see some of our local wildlife:

Oh, wait. That may have been the zoo.

And got a sense indirectly for the other type of local wildlife:

On the day we rode the cog railway to the top of Pikes Peak, the weather was gorgeous at the top, never a guarantee:

We got over to the neighborhood just across the valley from ours for the first time, some 800 years older than our 1970s ranchers: 

 

 

Even though the cliff dwellings were moved here from the southwestern part of the state by some enterprising Anglos bent on attracting tourists, I nevertheless found them impressive and evocative of the cliff-dwelling peoples who were here before the Pueblo and Utes arrived in the area.

 

After Rebecca headed home, cousins Maggie and Santiago showed up, kindly bringing their parents with them. That's for the next post.