Chasing Clouds

 

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Today...

as I was taking the kitchen garbage to the community center trash collection point...

I noticed how beautiful the clouds were.

And so...

I turned a short drive into a one hour long country drive

(Bandi got excited as we drove up the main road toward our country adventure).

I love clouds...

so...

I decided to pursue the fluffiest ones slightly West and mostly South...

and turn it into a mellow country drive.

The temperature was up in the low 70s F (22.2 C) as it was in the afternoon.

This was the highest temperature I had experienced here.

Even in the dead of summer...

it usually never goes higher than the high 70s F where I live

(in a rare heat wave...low 80s...according to my research...

I have yet to experience Summer here to any real degree)...

and at night in Summer...

it usually goes down to the 40s F (6 or 7 C) relatively quickly.

When this happens...

I will just close the windows in the daytime...

and open them at night so I may have a cool cross breeze.

This should keep my home cool throughout the next day...

even in a heat wave.

At my altitude...

with its very low humidity (usually in the 20s)...

heat dissipates very quickly...

and so, the air doesn't retain the daytime heat well once the sun sets.

If not...

I will get a room air conditioner...

but I don't think it will be necessary...

the mountain breezes are always refreshing.

This was on my way down the ridge line.

On my way to dropping off the garbage...

I took this photo from the community center driveway (it is a long semi-oblong).

Just before and after the turnoff for the road leading south...

there is this Llama farm.

They were funny...

they must have thought I had a treat for them...

so some of them started approaching.

Sorry, Llamas...

I had no treats for you.

There are numerous little ranches which have Cattle...

Yaks, Llamas, Alpacas, Goats, and Horses along the road to Woodland Park

(where I do my shopping)...

and of course...

there is a Donkey grazing field towards the other nearby town...

but all of the Donkeys were set free to roam wild until winter once again comes

(I will visit them once they are returned to their winter grazing land).

Bandi and I on our way south...

as we continued chasing clouds.

The more we headed south...

the warmer the air had gotten.

I love the climate of cooler weather where I live.

It is usually 10 to 20 degrees cooler where I live in comparison to the lower elevations

of some of the other towns...

and certainly with Colorado Springs 

(their elevation is 6,035 ft (1,839 meters)...

while I am at 9,650 ft (2,941 meters).

High altitude living has always been my dream.

I am a cool/cold weather kind of guy.

Perhaps the relatively small amount of Nordic genes of my paternal lineage 

expressed themselves in me  :)

It was at this point that I turned around and headed back home.

I had not planned on being gone long...

and so...

I hadn't taken any water for Bandi.

So...

I just made it a short country drive...

but...

Bandi and I still had a good time with the wind blowing through the car...

and with my favorite music playing...

and Bandi had a great time looking at the various animals along the way.

We were on our way back here...

 less than a 15 minute drive from home.

There were some horses out in their pasture.

This is the same place I had earlier seen a herd of deer crossing the road.

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While it is our intellect...

our foresight that formulates our plan for life...

 our dreams of our chosen paradise motivate us to achieve them...

and gives us the prime direction through which to guide our lives to that achievement.

You need both.

Keep the dream alive...

and take the positive action required to achieve it...

and your paradise will eventually become a reality.