This old and very well restored stage coach adorns our favorite hotel in Ouray.

By now you may have figured out that we go to Colorado frequently especially in June. This year we stayed in Ouray most of the time with stops in Eagle Nest, NM and Trinidad, CO as well. And this time I had a plan to do something different photographically than I usually do. I got Joy to shoot snapshots all along the way of anything that caught her fancy. And I did the same so we got a lot of photos that we wouldn’t normally get. I have turned all of these into a whimsical stop-action movie of the whole trip which you can see here. It’s kinda fun to see the whole trip condensed into three minutes.

Since I have been doing so much work with The Nature Conservancy of Texas lately I decided to see if there was anything interesting that TNC of Colorado was doing. I found three preserves in the Ouray area along the San Miguel River that are important for preserving pristine stretches of this river. The San Miguel is one of the few remaining wild rivers in the US. The San Miguel flows into the Delores River and is part of the larger Colorado River drainage. I am hoping to get my photos of these preserves on the TNC of Colorado site soon.

Some of the photos from our trip can be seen here.