For those that don’t know I live out in the “boonies”; at least in terms of Metro Denver. We bought a new house in a new community that at the time had zero stores, or anything else for that matter, in any sort of relative proximity. The nearest grocery store is still a 15 minute drive ~9 miles away. So you can imagine that we were quite pleased when we saw our nearest (about 4 blocks away or so) “major” intersection under construction with a new strip mall/plaza or whatever you want to call them. Similar to South Dakota where every strip mall has a little casino; in Colorado every strip mall has a liquor store because that’s the only place you can sell real beer and liquor. You can’t buy anything but 3.2% beer on Sundays in Colorado and so no grocery store or gas station is allowed to carry anything but. Consequently they stand up liquor stores just about everywhere. So why it wasn’t much of surprise that our new little strip mall contained one and that it was the first store in the joint I still thought it looked pretty… I don’t know… humorous(?) when I drove by at night and for the whole stretch of the strip all you could see lit up was the liquor sign. It looked kind of like a giant liquor store in the middle of nowhere. I’m no photographer but I did the best I could to try and capture this sight. You can’t actually drive into the parking lot of the place because it’s still very early on in contstruction (which also kind of made me wonder why they even have the place lit up… “Booze coming soon!” I spose) so me and Loni were pulled off on the main road that runs past it, shivering in the cold (I was, she was in the car) and trying to get the camera to stay steady long enough to capture it.

Regular Exposure

Long Exposure

 While we still can’t buy food anywhere close we can at least get our drink on. God bless America.

-Matt