We stayed in Red Feather Lakes for a couple of days extra since Don wanted us to stay for the Aug. get together. We got to meet some of the other host and since leaving heard some of them have resigned and left Mountain Park friday, didn't even stay until the end of the season.
I'm having trouble with my hip and hope it gets straightened out soon. Don't know if it is to much being on the go or from laying around so much when I was sick for about a week before we left CO. But it will get better some day I guess.
Utah is a beautiful state and I think it has more national parks then any other state. We was here in this KOA back in Aug 1998 because Bill turned 60 when we was here and Shirley and I took him out to eat here in town.
We went to Wal Mart Friday and got some stuff we needed stopped at a farm market place and got some fresh corn on the cob, tomatoes and peaches. The tomatoes are good but a little over ripe, will have to check him out later this week and see if he has new ones. The corn is wonderful, as sweet as candy.
When we get to Bryce canyon National Park we will do more day trips to Cedar Breaks, Zion National Park, hope we get to go to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and Powell Lake but will have to wait and see. When we was here in 98 we did the Arches National Park, and The Grand Canyon in AZ but the north rim was closed so sure hope we get to see it this trip.
Ok to the pictures now and see if I can remember what some of them are besides rocks LOL.
Well this is me since I put some of Bill thought maybe I should add the one with me in it. When you make the picture bigger you can see all of the little holes in the rocks that happen with the rain and snow. Remind you of mushrooms.
This is a sod house, a family of 10 lived here. The boys slept outside and they think they must have had a table outside and ate there. They lived there until flooding run them out.
Make this one bigger and you can see the Petroglyphs on them, you could also see where someone had to climb up there and add their own message. Don't know why people have to do stuff like that. But you do have to make it bigger and really look to find those.
This is a couple of HUGE cottonwood trees at the little park where we stopped and ate our lunch. I don't know that I have ever seen cottonwoods that big before.
We stopped to pick some peaches, as you go around it will have U-Pick Fruit and it was 1.00 a pound on the honor system. They even had pickers, bags, scales, and ladders so you could pick them. They are getting pretty picked over now, and we didn't stop for any apples. They are in the historic Fruita orchards and they have more than 2,700 trees including apples, peaches, apricots, pears, cherries, plums and nectarines. The trees flower in April and blooms last until May. Cherries are the first to harvest from June 11 to July 7th, Apricots June 27 to July 22, and June 28 to July 18 depends if they are early or regulars, Peaches Aug. 4 to Sept 6, Pears Aug 7 to Sept 8, and apples Sept 4 to Oct 17. A lot of the orchards we did not see. Found all of this info in a book we have on the Park.
Bill with a big formation behind him. This was taken after we walked up to the Gooseneck to see what was around us.
Below is the river that runs through it, this is take at the top of the Gooseneck lookout.
Rock formation.
more rocks.
Another formation, some of these are so flat it looks like they have taken a saw and sawed them off. Was a great day and really pretty... Hope you enjoy.
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Looks like you're having a good time. Pretty pictures. great to hear from you the other day. hope you're still doing good and keeping cool enough! love you!
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