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Estes Park, in Colorado, must be one of the most friendly and lovely places to stay in the United States.
My wife Liz and I certainly found it to be so during our two week holiday there, spent exploring the nearby Rocky Mountain National Park and generally wandering around town, drinking coffee, looking at the sights and meeting the local folk.
You can get a good feel for a new town within a few minutes of walking around the back streets and underpasses, away from the more polished tourist areas.
The overwhelming feelings we got from our wanderings around Estes Park were a great sense of civic pride combined with a friendliness and easy pace of life.
We had no misgivings walking around at night, and we saw no offensive graffiti or litter during our exploring.
Instead we found a lot of small visual treats to enjoy, such as these ceramic tiles, obviously produced by local school children, which were on display at either end of an underpass nearby the town's visitor information centre.
They were so bright and cheerful, filled with poignant little sayings, that I had to photograph them as a reminder of just how much we enjoyed our brief stay in Estes Park.
Filename - estes park street art 01
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 73mm
Exposure - 1/50 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Estes Park, Colorado, U.S.A.
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Polarising filter used to remove glare.
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