New painting from my landscape series of southern Colorado and the San Luis Valley In the foothills of the San Juan mountains is the tiny town of La Garita, Colorado. A few working ranches, old abandoned buildings and one abandoned church...all that is left of this once hustling old west logging town. This is an impressionist, stylized view. The San Juan Mountains are on the western side of Colorado's San Luis Valley...The beautiful place my Mother's family calls home.