God's Country

Some people will tell you that Texas is God's country, but after living in both Texas and Colorado, I can definitely say that Colorado wins hands down. The following pictures are from a morning trip to Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs the week Erin and I were in Colorado for Stefanie's wedding. This is just one small area of Colorado that has such beautiful landscape and scenery. So I don't know why hot, dry, brown grass having, green tree wanting Texas is God's country to some, when clearly it is just a few hundred miles to the northwest to truly appreciate his beauty.

Garden of the Gods park got it's name from 2 cowboys who stumbled across it, one said it would be a great place for a beer garden and another said it was fit for the gods. Oh, and another testament to Colorado's beauty: Question: How can you tell God is a Denver Broncos Fan? Answer: Because sunsets are blue and orange. :)

Kissing camel rock formation. Pretty good name for this one. My only complaint about the park was that the trails were not well marked with signs about which formation was which, so you had to kind of guess. We probably walked about 4ish miles total on 3 trails.

I think this is called 3 graces, but it might be Cathedral as well.

Three graces with some other cool ones in the shot.

You are supposed to have a permit for rock climbing, but I cheated.

I dont know what this rock is called, but you can see pikes peak through it. There is a picture like this in the deck of Colorado cards, only Pikes Peak has snow on it.

Balanced rock was leaning a little, so I pushed it back into place.

Then the other side got messed up, so I had to hold it up until the engineering guys came to fix it.

This was like the only rock that wasn't reddish in color in the park.

This trail kinda took you up into the rocks, so you could feel more part of it. It was cool, but we almost lost the trail on the way down cause it wasn't really obvious, but it was worth it.