Lonely places

Right now the government is arguing about the health care reform bill that is about to be signed. We pulled off this remote Colorado highway to water the dogs and found this lonely house in the middle of the plains. The Front Range is in the distance. Finding the age of the house was not possible, but from the condition it is very old and as it is near the railroad, it might have been a stop for the line at one point. It has good bones, but not something that would excite a real estate agent as it is very lonely out there. There are houses a few miles away, and the mystery was why this house was built here. All across the west, there are areas so distant and so isolated with that we wonder how they live out there. Or lived in the past, as in this ruin. It was built to withstand the winds across the plains, but some event caused it to be abandoned. The hopes and plans that created this place moved on. We did too, to head for the higher slopes for some skiing.