"Oct. 4, 2023. 4:30pm. -- Back in July 2011, Jean & I were Jeeping with our friends Bill and Dianna on the Ophir Pass Road when I noticed some bent Aspen trees along the road apparently bent by avalanches cascading down the sides of the mountains"
Contact lenses can sometimes be difficult to get used to. But once you get comfortable with them, putting them in and taking them out is very, very easy and you don't think twice about it. I used them for 40 years before I had cataract surgery and didn't need them anymore.
Check these out from Beth who lives in Southwestern Colo. #4 and #5 are from Ophir Pass. I think #2 and #3 are also from Ophir Pass. She took a week ago.
Ophir Pass, a few miles north of Silverton on Hwy.550. Last Dollar Rd from Telluride to Ridgway. Owl Creek Pass by Delta. Molas Lake on Hwy 550 just south of Silverton.
Beth, when I was staying at the hotel in Ouray one night I went outside to see if the stars would be really bright, but I was surprised to see virtually no stars at all. Any ideas why? I thought that being at that high an altitude in a small town like Ouray that the stars would be very bright.
It’s hard to really convey what our eyes actually see in places like that when using a camera. All I can do is try to show the beauty of scenes like those.