From Rocky Mountain

I have been off of the computer forever it seems and trying to go through pictures to see what to put on here.  We camped in Rocky Mountain National Park from Monday afternoon until yesterday afternoon when we had to move as the park was booked up for the holiday weekend.  We moved the camper a short way down the road and out of the park to Estes park where we will be until Monday morning when we will head west.

We have seen so many elk and taken so many photo’s of elk that it was hard to go through them all.  Also had deer in the campground behind the camper one day and then the next it was elk behind the camper.  What a wonderful site to open up the window blind in the morning and see the animals about 100 feet away.

Deer in back of the camper

Elk in the meadow below the campground - look at the big boss down there with the big rack

Chipmunk eating a rosehip, these creatures are so tame, people feed them when they aren't supposed to so as soon as they see you start to eat they come running for lunch time. I had one get on my jeans and had to brush him off and then he ran around and got on the back of my flannel shirt and I had to swat at him again.

Elk crossing the road

Two male elk trying to see who is the tough guy. They lock antlers and push and shove, these two were just playing it seemed as they would go at it for a short while, then stop and eat and then go at it again. This is rutting season here and it last into October when the females choose the male they want to mate with.

Mike and I taking a break on a trail. Mike had the tripod along for the camera and was able to set it up and get some photo's of us together.

couldn't leave this post off without some water falls! Love them so much. This is at the beginning of the Trail Ridge Road that goes across the mountain at very high altitudes. I will post photo's of that day on another blog post.

Right next to our campsite in the park was a trail head that was 1/10 of a mile long, it went down hill to the road and across from the road was the meadow where the elk came in the evening to feed and show off. They would normally start getting there from the woods around 5 in the evening and stay until 7 to 8 in the morning.   We would walk down the trail in the early evening to watch them and then again in the morning.  It was a nice way to start the day – I would put on the coffee pot first thing, fill up the insulated mugs and off we would go for an hour or so then back to the camper and get ourselves ready for hiking or driving for scenery watching.

One day we took the Trail Ridge Road and it was beautiful.  Mike is going through more photo’s while we are at this campground with wireless and I will try to do a post just on that road – it is beautiful and very high altitude.

This evening if I get a chance I will do another post and show my quilting that I have been doing.  Now I am off to find the quilt shop here and then back to get Mike and we are wondering around town, this weekend they are having an arts and craft fair in the town square and we will spend a little time there and then find more things to do.  Tomorrow it will be back in the park for another trail before we leave.