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[MarkBarbieri]

My parents sold their house in Estes Park. They are going to move down to the suburbs of the Longmont/Fort Collins area. They didn't move to Estes Park until all of us kids were grown and on our own, so it was never "home" for any of us. My parents lived in the house for almost 20 years. That's the longest that either of them had ever lived in any one place.

For all 9 of their grandkids, that house was always "Grandma and Grandpa's house." My kids have spent about half of the Christmases that they remember there. We've been visiting about once or twice a year. We'll miss the place.

It was a great place for photography. It was very close to Rocky Mountain National Park. For anyone familiar with the area, it was just up the road from the Estes Park YMCA camp. The house had an elk migratory pathway running behind and beside it, so you always saw lots of wildlife. On just about every trip there, we saw elk, deer, and coyote. We saw innumerable little rodent type creatures. During the summer, we also saw lots of hummingbirds.

Here are some shots I've taken there.

2002
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2002-08-Colorado/3879/79497414_bRiim-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2002-08-Colorado/4251/79497456_RXXyQ-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2002-08-Colorado/4932/79497558_ByLmR-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2002-08-Colorado/4758/79497537_WU4NY-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2002-08-Colorado/5305/79497677_amhn3-L.jpg

2003
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4441/3252710_Hmj9j-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4373/3252700_YGoST-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4421/3252706_YRnrG-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4503/3252712_Nohfj-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4637/3252720_SVqYY-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4660/3252724_FVgd3-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4721/3252733_PsaSn-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4858/3252752_E7ng4-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW5003/3252773_XJv2s-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-11-Colorado/CRW4955/3252769_zBqPS-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW6453/3242871_ZQctF-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW5714/3244176_ewsgS-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW5720/3244177_LkVQa-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW5788/3244186_AUHyg-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW6047/3244212_yaiRf-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2003-12-Colorado/CRW6069/3244213_ym28b-L.jpg

[MarkBarbieri]

2004
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3308/11988808_AQ5ns-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3362/11988818_w9v2W-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3352/11988816_Qp3kG-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3387/11988824_pkYa9-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3467/11988832_dyGBn-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3470/11988833_2n4JR-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2004-11-Colorado/CRW3494/11988836_wTMCR-L.jpg

2007
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2007-12-Colorado/20071225-NB0H0405/238515717_CW8a4-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2007-12-Colorado/20071225-NB0H0426/238517179_wmTmS-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2007-12-Colorado/20071229-NB0H0682/238526182_di49S-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2007-12-Colorado/20071229-NB0H0882/238530948_MSSXE-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2007-12-Colorado/20071229-NB0H0934/238531371_GYZvq-L.jpg

2008
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2008-08-Colorado-1/20080808-20080808-NB0H0062/460643522_SqEAB-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2008-08-Colorado-1/20080819-20080819-NB0H0272/460666004_zGi8P-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2008-08-Colorado-1/20080820-NB0H0440/460675917_5NzeF-L.jpg

[Daisy14'sDH]

Wow that wolf/coyote? is really photogenic! Great photos all around! Hopefully you can still find inspiration even in the 'Burbs...

[MarkBarbieri]

2009
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2009-08-Colorado/IMG0022/653576732_i3Y4b-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/Travel/Colorado/2009-08-Colorado/20090815-IMG3835/653570188_ydXrQ-L.jpg

2010
http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/991826189_TvXKV-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/991932990_3rTy9-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/991935793_ikKhj-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/991941731_rpKoG-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/992014927_jzJau-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/992019264_9cMjL-L.jpg

http://photos.barbierifamily.org/photos/1003692593_tQUNk-L.jpg

[MarkBarbieri]

Wow that wolf/coyote? is really photogenic! Great photos all around! Hopefully you can still find inspiration even in the 'Burbs...

Coyote. Actually several different coyote. In the summer, we usually went to bed with the windows open. It was fun to hear the coyotes howl and "talk" to each other.

[Marlton Mom]

Well.... you'll always have the pictures to keep the memories alive and maybe they can take those deer lawn ornaments with them to the new place!

:banana: :banana: :banana:

Marlton Mom

[klmall]

I would bet I've driven that road past their house several times on trips as recently as 2008. We used to ride on the roads of Estes Park each trip and enjoy the homes, picking out which one we would live in if we could!

You have wonderful pictures and I'm sure you will come up with some reason to get up there again, like camping?

[Pea-n-Me]

Always amazing shots. And always a (maybe somewhat surprisingly?) difficult time. :hug: