Back from Colorado

I just got back from an 11 day vacation in Colorado.  We rented a house on a 400 acre ranch called Trail Creek Ranch.  The ranch is about 45 minutes west of Fort Collins, in the mountains. It is available through Vacation Rental By Owner.  This was our 4th stay in 8 years.  The owners are also artists so it is really interesting to visit their studio on the ranch.  We also visited Rocky Mountain National Park for a day.  During our vacation, I took over 1,100 digital photos.  Most of those were for reference photos for future paintings. I did some sketching, but mostly I studied shadows on trees and clouds coming over the mountains.  There was no internet access or TV so in the evenings I spent some time watching Scott Christensen's DVDs on landscape painting.  He is such a great artist.  Someday I hope to take his workshop.