June 13-18 2014 Fort Collins, Colorado

Woo hoo, we decided we are leaving this Thursday. Back on the road again.

Art work in downtown Fort Collins. We went to the Taste of Fort Collins yesterday. It was much bigger than I expected, and pleasantly not crowded. Lots and lots of booths. John bought me a new crushable sun hat. We will see how well it holds up to me. . . It clouded up in the afternoon.

We went for the free music. The top band was Hey Lady! a B-52’s tribute band. I love the B-52’s. The second band was the Holler.  A band we heard before at the Poudre River festival. They are going to be at the Telluride Blue Grass festival next week. Very good.  They sang a song called ‘ Where ever you roam, may you always be home’. sounds like the theme of living in a motor home. A couple of sights from the taste- a mini vomit comet, and Spiderman and his entourage. Guess what? I am over 21!!

John liked the Kaiser broccoli at the Taste of Fort Collins.  On the road again. John and I drove to Colorado Springs to take my glass to the glass show there. Soon I will know if I won anything. There is a lot of nice work there, it will be a good show, so who knows. Still lots of snow on the front range and green, green fields on the way down.

We had lunch at the Colorado Mountain Brewery in Colorado Springs. The peak in the background is Pike’s Peak. On the way back we stopped in Palmer Lake(no relation) to visit one of John’s house mates from 30 years ago.

John and Sue Coons. John shared a house with her and Peggy, 30 years ago. She has a landscaping business and has a beautiful yard. And they train dogs to jump across water-who knew they had completions  of dogs jumping. They have champion dogs.  We got back in time for me to take a bike ride along the river trail. I love this time of day.

The river is coming down, but the McMurray lakes are still part of the river. The sun dropping behind the clouds.

Beautiful sunset on the way home. Flowers are now blooming. Campion, iris and purple loosestrife.

The grasses are blooming. Some of them are taller than I am. We had two basil plants we were growing all winter and spring on the bus. When we got to Colorado we split them into 10 plants. Planted 3 in the ground and the other 7 in pots. The top photo is right after transplanting.   I put the pots in the dirt while we were here.  The bottom one is them now, after 6 weeks-HUGE! John wanted me to sacrifice all but two and make pesto and  take two along. I couldn’t bear it. I trimmed back 4 and they will be adopted, we are taking 6 with us.

John and Mandy have one of the plants. Mandy cooked us a yummy farewell dinner of fajitas. It is harder and harder to leave our friends, but travel is so fun, we will be off tomorrow.