July 14, 2008

Shades & Shale

More from our trip to Colorful Colorado . . .

These photos were taken on Independence Day up on Scotch Creek.

This photo just wouldn't be the same without the shades, don't you agree?


Shale. If you've never experienced it, it's hard to explain. Not that shale itself is hard to explain. Shale is just chips of rock stacked one on top of the other.

Experiencing shale is difficult to explain. It is a huge rock slide just waiting to happen. The feeling of walking on shale is what I think it must have felt like when Peter stepped out of the boat to walk across the water to Christ. What it must have felt like physically--not emotionally. I can't even imagine that. What I'm trying to say is that with every step, you feel like you're going to fall in or it's going to slide out from under you.

Here, take a look:

Can you believe that little pine tree is growing straight up out of all those rocks?

Na . . . that pine tree is HUGE! Look how little My Man & Pickle are climbing up to it.


Hmmm . . . what are they doing under there?

Let's take a closer look . . .

And a little closer . . .

Oh dear, they're climbing down. I can't watch anymore . . .