the required travel photos

the downside of having been somewhere before is that it's hard to drum up much enthusiasm to take photos. especially when one isn't inclined to taking photos in the first place; and the things which one does want to photo speed by too fast. memory will have to work to preserve the photographic moments.

of the images i was able to take, here are the more interesting ones:

trees draped in snow on the last day coming down the rockies.

lichen covered rock previously hidden by snow.

the land amongst the mountains in the in-between time of winter and summer.

frilly succulents.

sudden flatness of the plains. 

the cats after having been left at home for 11 days. did not like that at all. nope, definitely not.