happy birthday to our beautiful state!

[fizzgig]

i am lucky to call this place home.

the hogback nw of fort collins


medicine bow range


yet another shot of longs peak at dusk

[femmocrat]

1. I was supposed to be born in Colorado.

My parents moved there when they were first married. But my mom was homesick for Pennsylvania, so I ended up here. LOL I remember her telling us about Pike's Peak and other sites when I was a little girl.

[fizzgig]

5. it is so lovely here

if you've never visited, you really should

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Born here. Raised here.

Have lived on the west coast, east coast, and places in between. And every one of those places confirmed that Colorado is HOME.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Oh beautiful, for spacious skies . . .

more pics at link
http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/colorado/colorado-day/

[fizzgig]

4. those photos are incredible

i'm a native, never lived anywhere else and don't know that i ever want to.

[mountain grammy]

6. Agree. Been here 30 years, hubby 46,

Daughter a native. Love it!

[fizzgig]

8. i used to travel a lot

and there was nothing like coming home to the mountains.

[beveeheart]

7. "Why are you crying?" my father asked me.

We were watching a football game a month after I had moved back to MD after getting divorced here in Colorado. (I didn't have any family here and my folks were getting older, so I thought I should move back there to be near them.) Anyway, a Coors commercial was on...one of those old ones where icy water was running down through snow and ice-covered rocks on a mountainside...and apparently tears (which I was unaware of) were running down my face. I missed Colorado soooo much, the ex not at all. Took me 8 years to get back and have been here 25 years in all.

[fizzgig]

9. i honestly can't imagine leaving here

i'm a native and tied to the land. if i did move, it would have to be somewhere similar.

[locks]

10. and Happy 100th anniversary to

Rocky Mountain National Park in our backyard. Thanks for your great photos. Colorado Festival orchestra gave us a wonderful treat Thurs and Fri night with Sibelius' #5 and Beethoven's Pastoral while we looked at John Fielder's photographs of Colorado and RMNP wilderness.

Hard not to say to my friends and family all over the nation "you could be in Colorado."