Back East for the wedding
June 17th 2012 9 June 2012 Saturday. Crossing the Great Plains.
In 1895, following a visit to the top of Pikes Peak, the mountain that looms a mile above Woodland Park, Colorado (where we live), Katherine Lee Bates penned the following lyrics in America the Beautiful:
"O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!"
We descended f
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