Buena vista

We took the scenic route. The direct route from here to Glenwood Springs would have been to go straight north right back through Leadville to Interstate 70, then west. We didn’t do that. We left Santa Fe on Interstate 25 northbound and drove for a few hours, as far as Walsenburg, Colorado. From there we took a back way we never get to go on, a colorado highway through Westcliffe to eventually meet up with Highway 50 and follow the Arkansas River upstream through Salida. We were expecting great scenery and got it. So here we are again at the KOA in Buena Vista for the night. In Santa Fe, the hummingbirds were all black-chinned. Here, they are all broad-tailed and Rufous. Swarms of hummingbirds and a bonus; a roving pack of about a hundred pinon jays, complaining their way across the scrub forest.