A Warm January Saturday, Perfect for a Road Trip to Manitou Springs/ Colorado Springs

My uncle's old red VW bug. Love the colors on old cars...there's something about them...

Lovely day today with my brother...really just can't spend enough time with that guy. He's wonderful. One of the silver linings of having to do multiple IVF procedures at my out-of-town clinic is all the time we've gotten to spend together over the past year (I stay with him when I'm in Denver).

Today, we drove to Manitou Springs and went to see the Seven Falls. Beautiful, and warm enough to walk around out there in a T-shirt, which is pretty much unheard of in January. After, we went to my aunt's in Colorado Springs (my uncle died a few weeks ago, so really wanted to see her.) My cousin kicked all of our butts playing Boggle. (At the end I had 8 points, she had 43. Kind of embarrassing when you work professionally as a writer.)

My aunt had up the loveliest picture of her and my uncle at their high school prom...it must have been the very early 60s (they're older than my parents)...my aunt had on the most divine dress, knee-length, white eyelet fabric. And the cat-eye glasses she wore in her wedding picture...to die for.

Back to Manitou for dinner (chili renellos...yum) and then the drive home, most of it through national forest, really remote and dark and quiet and peaceful at night. We did that drive to visit my Aunt and Uncle dozens and dozens of times as children...it was kind of nice to do it with my brother again.

Good day.