We headed east across the high plains two days after the election. Time to reconnect with the landscape; time to reconnect with family and friends back on the east coast. Our first stop, Deep Trail, a small town hanging on for dear life on the side of I-70. The restaurant/bakery we had lunch in was closing down that day. The business was moving west to another town along I-70, closer to the sprawling suburbs of Denver. 
Yet we have connections to Deer Trail. The town had once been home to a Friends (Quaker) Meeting. Most of its members had left years ago, but the daughter of one of the members now worships with us in Fort Collins Friends Meeting. This year when the Deer Trail meeting was formally "laid down," Fort Collins Friends received the last of the funds that was being held in the name of Deer Trail. So we are connected and reconnected again...this prairie and the western foothills.
