Headed to Colorado Springs

After the Royal Gorge we headed to Colorado Springs to meet one of Patti's cousins for dinner.  We decided to take a back road because we thought it would be pretty.   It was very pretty along  the way BUT it was so wash-boarded in places that it would shake your teeth out.  I was driving down the road when I got a glimpse of something in the road so I stopped and backed up and the little fellow below was what I had seen.  Of course I pulled up a little and got out and went back to pester him.  It didn't take a lot to get him mad and rattling...just a few pebbles dropped on him. :)


As you can see from the other pictures it was very beautiful.  It would have been so much more enjoyable if it hadn't been so rough.  However, we still got to Colorado Springs in time to meet her cousin.

 We recently just returned from a vacation in CO so I thought I would make my first blog of pictures that Betsy just loves. :)

The picture above was taken in front of the Pawnee Grassland sign on the CO plains.  I tried to get him to move by dropping some pebbles on him but he wouldn't budge and never would rattle.  I wanted him to move because I was afraid someone would step on him if they got out to take a picture of the sign.

 This little fellow was in the mountains and I had no problem getting him a little riled.  As you can see in both pictures he is coiled and ready to strike.  He was also rattling those rattles to let us know that he was there.