This is the view I came home to after being stuck inside all day at school. I knew this must be serendipitous and I knew what I had to do. Call Beck and go a day early. Of course! Besides, who could pass up these gorgeous clouds for photo opportunities. Thankfully, the spontaneous person that she is made my plans perfect. I picked her up in the late afternoon and we headed out.
This is the view that opened up before us as we headed out towards Butte College.
Oops, I missed the turn off because we were talking so much and I continued up highway 70 and we pulled into the Vista Point parking area where we were presented with this gorgeous panorama.
We headed back down the highway and finally made it to Table Mountain, hopped out of the car and Becky pointed out this rainbow behind us.
The late afternoon light was warm and perfect for showing off the gorgeous wildflowers still springing up everywhere.
Becky looked so cute sitting in the middle of this patch of flowers (trying to avoid sitting on the cow patties!)
I think maybe we took as many pictures of each other as we did of the landscape.
The shadows were lengthening...
and the cows were pretty used to people running all over the place.
The clouds started to turn pink as the sun was setting and we were racing back up the hill to the parking lot so we would have a better view of the sunset.
Out of breath, but delighted with our adventure, we snapped our last pictures.
