Road Trip to S.Central Colorado

[High Plains]

Thought I might take you along on the photo journey.
Here goes...

Maybe the best pic first. This sign must have been eight feet tall out there in the pasture. It welcomed all drivers on I-76 entering Colorado. Just about brought a tear to my eye!!

If this is the vacation spot, then most folks would require the payment.

Used to be a going concern, now everyone is just gone.

Rancher's Christmas message.

Necessary in these parts.

Sometimes necessary.

Environmentally adapted.

Ol' Hereford.

A Scotty for Pure.

Here's the beef.

And here's the "other" beef.

Pen Rider's Paradise.

Hybrid Vehicle.

Now that's the Spirit!!

Ranchers not interested in relocating.

Pretty doggone western if you ask me.

Hills outside of Trinidad.

I'm up and on the road with the sun.

Frosty and cool this morning.

Not a bad view through my passenger's window.

Nobody is home to enjoy the new day.

 

[Soapweed]

Looks like you had a good day and a nice tour. Thanks for allowing me to be a cyber hitch-hiker. :wink:

 

[per]

Very enjoyable trip on a cold, blowy, snowy day. Thanks!

 

[milkmaid]

Where's that at in Colorado? Looks like a feedlot I was at a couple weeks ago.

 

[nortexsook]

Cool pics. Thanks for sharing!

 

[High Plains]

Where's that at in Colorado? Looks like a feedlot I was at a couple weeks ago.

I don't want to necessarily name names, but let's say the feedlot was located near a town that rhymes with "Fordway". :wink:

The rest of the pics were taken between Rocky Ford and Trinidad. That is, besides the sunrise photos, which were heading east of Trinidad on the highway the next morning. I drove to the Kansas line on that highway and might have encountered ten vehicles. Pretty good place to gather your thoughts and soak up the lesser-traveled part of the state.

HP

 

[Ned Jr.]

I was just on that road from La Junta to Trinidad Yesterday. The day before that I drove threw Fordway :? on my way to Bennett. I was glad to stay home today. To much drivings made my back hurt.

 

[PureCountry]

Great pics and captions HP. Thanks alot for sharing, and posting the Scotty and Kyloes(Black Highlanders). That old adobe store is really cool - or whatever it is. :lol:

 

[Triangle Bar]

Nice photos High Plains, especially the sunrise ones. That Fordway Feedlot has bought alot of hay from me over the years, nice folks. They sure have a mess of Holsteins on feed right now.

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Thanks for the excursion HP,have a good friend from the local Junior College who bought a place out of Hartsel,colorado.Been wanting to visit Colorado and now i kinda have.Cheers!

 

[Les]

nice to take a trip like that and not have to leave the farm thank s

 

[Hereford76]

The picture through your passenger window is awesome!

 

[Nicky]

Thanks for sharing...great pics!

 

[Shortgrass]

Fisher Peak (the one in the hills east of Trinidad) always reminds of a poem I heard that begins:
Down in Southern Colorado, where the foothills meet the plains,
and the mesas run on eastward, and it seldom ever rains,
a mile above the Purgatorie there stood a round corral--------

sorry folks, but I forget the rest . It was done by the author at a Poetry gathering in Colorado Springs.

Pinon Canyon expansion is a crock. The army has a huge acreage now, and wants to increase that. It would do nothing for national security, and would harm the environment. Those tracked vehicles would tear up the native sod beyond repair. There are lots of petrografs - whatever you call those drawing the Indians did on the rocks, and dinasaur tracks. Any one who wants to write a letter to support the ranchers of southern Colorado would be welcome to. If the Army wants to acquire some training ground of value for this war, they should head for LA, and get some urban land that will resemble the cities of the far east. The website is excellent, and worth visiting just for the slide show.

 

[DOC HARRIS]

These pictures around Trinidad, and Walsenburg area make me homesick of a sorts! I taught Agriculture through the Trinidad College many years ago, and old Fishers Peak looked very familiar to me! The "type" of Beef Production in that country has changed considerably since I was there because the 'management' of Natural Resources and the quality of beef seedstock has improved incrementally, although significant improvement has been made in the breeding technics of seedstock through recognizing acceptable Phenotype, and selection practices using EPD's and Functional Traits as guides. Fifty to 60 years can make a large difference if breeders will utilize the knowledge acquired in that period of time for their own BENEFIT!

DOC HARRIS