June 2021: Ashes, Earth, Trees, Water, Sky

To honor Dad, who died August 17, 2018, we go outside.  To Fairmount Cemetery (where his parents are buried + where my sister & I learned to drive stick shift with him) & to Colorado's Rocky Mountains.  That high & dry place where the sun shines close in the bluest sky, the water is reviving, the air fresh but thin & the trees spread wide like an enormous blanket.  Where the views are mesmerizing & make you feel ALIVE.  My sister told me that all the aspen trees in a grove are connected like a brain under the earth which made me glad to remember Dad where he was happiest.  So we walked the trails in Frisco, Monarch Lake, Fraser & near Berthoud Pass to be with him again & spread some of his ashes in the places he loved most.  

 

(Windsor Gardens, Denver)

(Windsor Gardens, Denver)

(Windsor Gardens, Denver)

(Fairmount Cemetery, Denver)

(Fairmount Cemetery, Denver)

(Fairmount Cemetery, Denver)

(Fairmount Cemetery, Denver)

(Fairmount Cemetery, Denver)

(Frisco)

(Frisco)

(Lily Pad Lake, Frisco)

(Frisco)

(Hot Sulphur Springs)

(Hot Sulphur Springs)

(Hot Sulphur Springs)

(Arapaho National Forest)

(Arapaho National Forest, Monarch Lake)

(Arapaho National Forest, Monarch Lake)

(Arapaho National Forest, Monarch Lake)

(Arapaho National Forest, Monarch Lake)

(Fraser)

(Fraser River)

(Fraser River)

(Fraser River)

(Fraser River)

(Fraser River)

(Experimental Forest, Fraser)

(Experimental Forest, Fraser)

(Berthoud Pass & Continental Divide)

(Berthoud Pass & Continental Divide)

(Dairy King, Empire)