From Las Vegas, NM we headed north into Colorado and stopped in Trinidad to see the AR Mitchell museum. Mitchell was a western artist that did many of the book covers for the cowboy dime novels and western themed magazines. I enjoyed the cowboy art and artifacts on display and they also had several paintings of current artists on display. Betsy knew most of the artists, and I even knew one or two! We spent the weekend with John and Elaine and met our Denver friends aka The Circle. Betsy and I are currently probationary members of this group. I'm fairly certain that Betsy would be voted in on the first ballot. I think it might take a few ballots with much armtwisting and outright bribes for me to be accepted. After a weekend that went all to fast we headed to Estes Park to meet up with Kay and Ernie. The following day we took a hike in the park to Gem Lake. We all looked up the trail and here came a woman Ranger and 3 llama's as pack animals. She told us they use the llama's to pack supplies up to the lake and take the trash down. The llama's also serve has vegetation clippers since they eat the little branches that might hang over the trail. Pretty cool. The next day we all hiked to Dream Lake which is just plain spectacular. The following day we went off on our own and found Betsy a valley stream
with the majestic Rocky Mountains in the background to sketch. Our last night there we attended a Michael Martin Murphy concert and enjoyed his show very much. If you like cowboy/western music you'll like him.
He told a great John Wayne quote--"Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid." Amen, brother. What a great visit.
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