Colorado August 2020
31 Jul 20 Friday – Tucson to
Albuquerque
We cancelled all our 2020 travel after
Bozeman/Big Sky in March because of Covid-19….except for Colorado! So, after
spending the first part of Summer in unusually hot Tucson, we are finally on
our way. We haven’t just been sitting around, though. Lauve has been working on
her art, doing Zoom classes with two other friends and a well-known artist, Lawrence
Lee. Here are some of her latest abstract landscape in acrylics.
I have been finishing up the tax
season helping people who can’t afford to pay for preparation, through an IRS sponsored program
called VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance). I’m in charge of a large
retirement community site where we did over 100 returns. The last half of the season we
worked remotely due to the virus.
To break up the drive we stopped in
Albuquerque for the night at a lavender farm/inn called Los Poblanos Ranch located
close enough to the Rio Grande to be nicely vegetated. We arrive in time to
have a walk around the lovely grounds, part farm, part garden. We enjoyed our
complimentary sangria in their La Quinta garden. Dinner was outside on the
patio at their restaurant, Campo.
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| Lavender field and guest rooms |
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| Arrival lot |
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| Tea is served at La Quinta |
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| Part of the garden |
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| Rained half way through dinner |
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| Birthday dessert under cover |
Delicious breakfasts
It is new for us to be out in public settings other than grocery stores or take out restaurants. So being close to hotel reservation clerks and restaurant wait staff is difficult to get comfortable with, feels strange. Like when the waiter wants to give a long explanation of the specials.
1 Aug 20 Saturday - Albuquerque to Frisco,
CO
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| The Ten Mile Creek off the deck of our place in Frisco |
Finally, cool weather! Frisco seems as
busy as last year. Main St. has been blocked off so the restaurants can seat people
6 feet apart in the street. Almost everyone is masked. It is taking a time to
get used to.
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