March 16-22, 2015: Denver, Co, Parts of NM and then on to Texas

Sunset View of Denver from Lou and Peters Condo

Denver visiting Elizabeth & Will 

and Lou, Peter & Weston

Union Station in Denver

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Lou and Peters grandson, Weston
in their Denver Condo

 Amanda visited before she and I left for the Garth Brooks Concert

 Williams paintings hanging in their favorite local brewery.
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GARTH

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Driving Southeast from Denver to Fort Worth, Texas 

Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs
The United States Air Force Academy, is a military academy for officer candidates for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, 

Just a funny sign to me.

Near Pikes Peak

 Trinidad

Capulin Volcano National Monument Capulin Volcano National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in northeastern New Mexico which protects and interprets an extinct cinder cone volcano that is part of the Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field.  It last erupted between 58,000 to 62,000 years ago.The Monument is a well-preserved, relatively young (58,000 to 62,000 years old), symmetrical cinder cone. It rises steeply from the surrounding grassland plains to an elevation of 8,182 feet above sea level. The irregular rim of the crater is about a mile in circumference and the crater about 400 feet deep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capulin_Volcano_National_Monument

 Clayton, New Mexico
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My photo taken at 50 miles a hour of Cadillac Ranch Near Amarillo,

The two photos below are stock photos from Wikipedia

and shows just how colorful they are.

CADILLAC RANCH





Cadillac Ranch is not a ranch but a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, USA. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm.  
It consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth & death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs: the tailfins) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Ranch

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 I was amazed at the Green Grass!

I have always loved the Water Towers of Texas. Almost every town in Texas has a 

tower, many built by Chicago Bridge and Iron Company and many have the town mascot,'

The link below is a good history of Texas Water Towers.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texas-primer-the-water-tower/

I am most familiar with the water tower in my old home town of Grapevine.

The two photos below are stock as we did not get to Grapevine on this trip. 

I remember the day the Mustang was painted on the round one one the right.

Now it has grapes on it instead and the other one has the Mustang.

 We were greeted by this beautiful Cardinal when we arrived at Susan Butlers home in Fort Worth.

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Next:  Visting Susan Butler, Friends, and Uncle Irad.