Colorado April 27, 2011

We are back in Colorado. We visited Martha and Jimjim in Aspen then drove on home to Fort Collins. We both had jury duty and multiple dr appointments. Now we can just relax and visit friends.  I am making glass for a glass show on Santa Fe Drive in Denver in May.

top: Birds and deer at the campground at Ridgeway Lake, Colorado, next row the view from the campground, the bus in Aspen, Zoe at the retriever crossing, last row: Zoe, Jamison Moran, Martha Moran, John Moran and suep in Aspen

first photo Aspen Highlands ski area on the left, Buttermilk ski area on the right. John, Martha, Jamison and Jimjim at the base of Aspen Highlands, left photo is Aspen Highlands. Still lots of snow.

dinner with my coworkers, Easter brunch, Brad, Marge, Barb, Chris, Jerry, Jinna and Steve, and the kids table

top photos from the Poudre River trail, Fort Collins, Co second row the new court house in Denver and the last photo is my latest masterpiece for the show in May

Goblin Valley State Park, Utah April 12 2011

On our way back to Colorado we stopped at Goblin Valley on the way. Then we went to Green River Utah for the night and had dinner at Ray’s Bar and Grill and had their world famous hamburgers. the next day we drove to Montrose Colorado and visited Johns friend Kit and are now camped at Ridgeway Reservoir state  camp ground. Getting ready to go to Orvis Hot Springs. The snow is melted, some grass is growing, but there are no leaves. I feel like we have left spring behind.  I am seeing more birds. the desert does not have as much wild life.

goblins in Goblin Valley, there is a John goblin in the second photo

John and Sue Goblins

I can’t resist these shapes

A little bit of desert in Montrose, a magpie and a mountain blue bird

Sulphur Creek, Capital Reef April 2011

We hiked up Sulphur creek. You have to walk in water for parts of it because the canyon is so narrow.

Castle rock, walls of Sulphur Creek and if you look really close you can see John in the third photo

John climbing the first fall in the canyon

more shots of John hiking

John hiking again, small waterfall, and view down canyon

waterfall, John wading in the creek and the big waterfall at the end of the canyon

John hiking back in the lower left corner, and the sulfur that the creek in named for on the canyon walls

This is Helga. She is from Munich Germany and is 79. She has been traveling the US since 2003 in her small van. She travels with Mark Twain,a dummy  in the first photo and she has embroidered her route on this map of the US. You meet such interesting people on the road.

Cohab Canyon, Capital Reef, Utah April 10, 2011

John climbing up to Cohab Canyon

colors on the rocks, desert varnish in an alcove at the end of a slot side canyon, and the’ nostril rocks’ as I call them on the walls of Cohab canyon

more nostrils

John wedged into a slot-look no hands or feet!, and a couple other slots

canyon wall shots

wall, cliffs, new basket, rain storm down canyon and desert varnish in a pattern I have never seen before