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Miles to Go

a wintry trek through Colorado

By Lauren di Matteo

Every Christmas, I travel home to Colorado to be with loved ones. This year, I left sunny Southern California a week earlier than usual to take a road trip with my brave brother through the snow-laden slopes of the Rockies. Here are a few images I created on the journey, and one of my favorite poems to accompany them.

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Miles to Go

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Miles to Go

Footnotes

Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

FootNotes

Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

© 2026 Lauren di Matteo

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