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Published: June 22nd 2012
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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 from the "purp...
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The Travel Camel
Shane Dallas
Love this photo!
What a beautiful location for a wedding - glad everything went so well on the day. Love the use of Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby" for the dance - not heard of it being used in this context before, but what a wonderful choice of song!