The Colorado Trail ~ The Next Bit

So in June 2007, I set out on the first leg of The Colorado Trail, a 480 mile long distance footpath winding from Denver to Durango. I covered the first 5 days, starting in Denver and finishing at Kenosha Pass, not all that far from where I live. And if you read The Gunsmoke Files at the time, you'll recall I didn't really enjoy it all that much.

The scenery was awesome of course - this is Colorado after all. But the temperatures hovered around the high 90's (high 30's for those of you reading in Centipede) all week, which sucked a lot of the fun out of it. And, in case you didn't know this, the ground between Denver and Kenosha Pass slopes up. Sometimes quite dramatically. And my pack was too bloody heavy and my muscles weren't there and my back was giving me problems and...OK, you get the picture. I was glad when it was over.

But kind of like how no woman would go through childbirth a second time, if nature didn't make them forget how bad the first one was, I've had almost 2 years for those bad memories to fade. So tomorrow, I'm setting out on the next leg. Just 3 and a bit days this time, from Kenosha to Breckenridge. Only 33 miles which sounds easy enough. Just as long as I ignore all those contours, and the words "Georgia Pass", and those tiny numbers that look suspiciously like "12,000". Feet, that is. Above sea level.

Ah, how hard can it be? This is going to be a piece of cake.

Hummingbird

The first hummingbirds of the year have shown up, looking hungry. So, I spent my lunch hour filling and hanging feeders. Hope the little buggers are grateful.

Sometimes I get impatient
but she cools me without words
and she comes so sweet and so plain
my hummingbird and have you heard
that I thought my life had ended
but I find that it’s just begun
cause she gets me where I live
I’ll give all I have to give
I’m talking about that hummingbird
oh she’s little and she loves me
too much for words to say
when I see her in the morning sleeping
she’s little and she loves me
to my lucky day
hummingbird don’t fly away

When I’m feeling wild and lonesome
she knows the words to say
and she gives me a little understanding
in her special way
and I just have to say
in my life I loved a woman
because she’s more than I deserve
and she gets me where I live
I’ll give all I have to give
I’m talking about that hummingbird
oh she’s little and she loves me
too much for words to say
when I see her in the morning sleeping
she’s little and she loves me
to my lucky day
hummingbird don’t fly away