Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — The Skies of Colorado. [ARTICLE]

The Skies of Colorado.

Our skies in spring are different from those of the rest of the world. We have not here the soft, gray mixture of sky and clouds which seems to hug the treetops and breaks into tears as naturally as the heroine of the old time novel. Each season has its own peculiar sky in Colorado, though the summer skies do somehow overflow and crop up unexpectedly in the midst of all seasons. Our winter sky is a steely blue, frank and kindly, yet warning one not to presume too far. When spring comes this metallic luster softens to a blue lightened with purple and just touched with silvery gray. A little later the summer sky will be here—a deep, rich, vivid, living, strangely glowing blue, a blue that has all the warmth and Are crimson. That is the mountain blue, and you seldom see it more than thirty miles from the foothills. Out on the plains the rich blue lightens and is streaked and glazed with gold. Then comes fall, and a gentle purple tone creeps into the deep blue of the mountains and the golden tints of the plains. And then comes winter, with its steel color again. And every now and then, n<4 matter what the season, the summer sky suddenly opens above you, perhaps for hours, perhaps for weeks, a reminder that this Is. after all, a summer land and that the empress of the seasons is keeping watch over her own.—Rocky Mountain News.