Living Color

 

We (Bill, Foster and I) traveled down a new road yesterday AND another road which I thought was new to me.

The new road ran alongside the old highway through Naples which comes back to HWY 95 at Bonners Ferry's Mirror Lake Golf Course. 

A former teaching colleague lives on the road, so Bill and I did a scouting trip to find out just where.

Turned out she wasn't home, so later Bill asked if I wanted to go up Ruby Creek Road, which branches off from the Highland Flats Road northwest of Naples. 

Sounded good to me, and as we made our way up into the mountains, I announced I'd never been on this road before. 

"Yes, you have," Bill said. 

I didn't press the issue but still couldn't recall ever seeing the area which offers a lot of wide open scenes and splashes of fall colors. 

Twas later that he reminded me that we had taken the road a few years ago from the Roman Nose lakes. 

Well, of course, it was a different perspective at the time, so the unfamiliarity made sense.

We drove and drove and took one break in a large level area with lots of openings, a campsite complete with open-air john and an expansive view of the land below and of other mountains.

Foster enjoyed that experience, walking alongside us, with occasional reminders to go "this way" or "that way" to avoid bumping into anything.

We also found something of value to a Marine.  If a Marine has lost something in that camping area up Ruby Creek, contact me and identify. 

When we had reached an altitude where the landscape and probably some more pretty views were fogged in, we turned around. 

On the way up, Bill had seen a sign with some writing on it next to a creek. So, on the way down, we stopped to learn more about the sign. 

Bill finally left the pickup with his hiking poles and found a way to see the sign up closer.

Turns out it's a memorial to a young man who died in a snowmobile accident in 2005 in that area. 

Maybe we'll have to take that road again on a clear day and drive all the way to the Roman Nose lakes.  It's probably gonna be drop-dread gorgeous in the next couple of weeks. 

And, we'll have to go back and knock on our friend's door again.  Maybe she'll be home. 

  Enjoy the photos, and don't forget the chili feed and silent auction benefitting the 4-H horse judges tonight at the Parnell Clydesdale Ranch off Selle Road. 

6 p.m. 

Should be fun. Happy Friday and Happy Birthday to our dear friend Mow!