I had my last (I hope) appointment with my ophthalmologist this past Thursday, a final checkup after surgery for a detached retina. He gave me the "all clear" to both travel up to the mountains and fly (in an airplane), and so I have been taking a few drives up to Evergreen, Colorado from Denver once again. Evergreen is 19 miles west of Denver, at an altitude of 7,220 feet, and is a pretty upscale suburb. Upper Bear Creek Road, to the west of Evergreen, is especially ritzy, lined with huge homes that make you wonder what the hell they do with all that space - house immigrants, take in orphans, host wild days-long parties? They must spend half their lives doing housework. I took the photograph above where Upper Bear Creek meets Golden Willow Road, showing a snow-covered Mount Blue Sky, formerly Mount Evans, sitting at an altitude of 14,130 feet. Evergreen is a short drive from downtown Denver in good weather, and a great place to live, but in the winter, if there is a significant snowstorm, Interstate 70 often closes for hours, if not the entire night. Unless you have a pied-a-terre in the city for whenever that happens, it makes for a long long day. The high cost of paradise.
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