September 10 - October 18 2008
(Postcards, for the most part, were“on hold” while we visited with the Colorado grandkids in Steamboat Springs and Boulder.) We toured the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. And finally—after all these years—we drove through the Garden of the Gods near Pikes Peak. It is no wonder that this view inspired Katherine Lee Bates to write the poem that became the lyrics for “America the Beautiful.”