Colorado — THE Petersen Vacation of 2012 — Pictures!

Sitting on Balanced Rock

In the Rockies

Mom & Dad on top of Pike’s Peak

On top of Pike’s Peak!

The stained glass inside was absolutely gorgeous!

At the Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs

Magic of the Heavens

(written June 12, 2012 with editing input by H.L. Snead)

Up above the world I hang,
suspended in the air,
Peeking out the window
at all the colors there:

Checkered fields like calico cats
and floating cotton balls,
wisps of cloud like mermaid’s hair
I see from within these airplane walls.

Winding rivers and county roads
act as serpents and lazy snakes;
herds of hippos, white and soft,
vanish from their fluffy lakes.

Trees are stippled by His hand,
for this is His own magical land!