A Spring Arrival in Colorado
Spring 2024
A picture narrative by David Kotok
(Published in “The Scoop”, a local Sarasota, FL publication.)
Today we’ll take a break from the turmoil in the world and describe a brief trip called “a spring arrival in Colorado”. So, here are a few words and some photos I’ve taken to help tell the story.
I’ll skip most of the Denver area except to say that it was good to have lunch and catch up with Mike Englund (Action Economics) in Boulder. We discussed our forthcoming book; Mike is a co-author. More about that in future missives as the book nears completion (finally). Stay tuned for The Fed and the Flu.
The journey really started in Salida. It’s in Chaffee County (about 20,000 county wide population) and about 3 hours scenic drive from Denver, except it was cloudy, rainy, snowy, sleeting, and a traffic tie up on a country road. Salida is the county seat. It is famous for the Sangre de Cristo Mountains which Paul Simon sang about (1983) in “Hearts and Bones.”
A sudden snowstorm hit. That made the drive to Summit County over Fremont Pass (11,319 ft.) and thorough Leadville treacherous. Leadville, CO is the highest incorporated city in America (10,192ft.). So, an extra night in Salida offered this morning greeting in the Hampton Inn parking lot.
Back at the house we had some visitors. And our neighbor took us standing on the deck looking at them. Two young bulls with the beginning of the rack of horns. They were unafraid.
9,000 feet, snow-capped mountains, blue sky (some of the time), morning temp 25-35 or so. Afternoon 60. Sun strong and warm when it is shining. A million stars.
As the saying goes, “The life is hard in the mountains.”
Happy Spring!