5-8 State Forest State Park, Colo

M and his family set off at dawn Saturday for an extended stay in Portland. The trip will take them two days. After a fancy pre-Mothers' day brunch at P's, we said goodbye to P and S, and left for Portland oursleves, though for us the trip will take more like two weeks.

A scenic drive to oddly-named State Forest State Park, near Colorado's border with Wyoming. On the way we saw a fox and three elk. The park is in a beautiful setting, way up in the Rockies at 9000', with snow remaining on the norhtern side of mountains and hills. A large reservo8ir was mostly drained for maintenance, and what remains is frozen solid. We had the campground almost entirely to ourselves.