Cactus and clouds

Looks good, but don't touch.

Windy cloud pattterns.

FLORENCE, CO - -  Somehow at the end of our trip today we found ourselves on the "Iron Bar Trail."  Concertina wire on top of high fences and observation towers / guard towers at the corners are always a give-away.  First we passed a local corrections facility in Canon; then it was a unit of the Colorado State Pen. system.  Finally, we found a nice motel for the night off the beaten path...and less than a mile from the maximum security United States Federal Pen. outside Florence. 
     You've got to be one nasty piece of work to land in  max security...in general terms most prisoners never see another facility; spend 23 hours a day in lock-down; will potentially spend a lot of time in solitary confinement; have little interaction with other prisoners or guards and get very few privileges.