July 27, 2014 Salida, Colorado

Another fun day in Salida. It clouded up and cooled off, was  very pleasant. Many of the weekend people at the campground went home and town was not as busy.

We walked by the Bungled Jungle a couple times when it was closed. It was finally open and we got to go inside and check out the creatures. The artists used to live in Fort Collins at the Swetsville Zoo. They did not make the zoo, but lived with the man who did. For those of you who have never heard of the zoo, it was a bunch of really cool  metal sculptures. A Walmart  was built across the street from the zoo and the zoo is gone  now. The Bungled Jungle’s  work -whimsical monsters are  really incredible.

I hung the hummingbird feeder and the birds are now fighting over it. They are so fun to watch. John, Bev, Evan and I took a stroll around town, starting with Salida lake. Geese on the Salida lake.

Even posed in the water for us. Then touring neighborhoods,and wandered historic downtown.

Another mural of  kayakers in Pabst beer cans on the side of the Victoria bar. We had a sumptuous  lunch at an outdoor patio so Evan could join us.

Admired the wooden cowboy.  Also admired Bev’s backyard with a green house and claw footed bathtub with lettuce in it.

Sphinx moth dining on milk weed, and larkspur. The sphinx moths look like hummingbirds. Their larva are the horn worms, like the ones that eat your tomato plants.

There must be an Electrolux artist in town, we found a mail box and a rocket made from Electrolux vacuums. Flowers  in Bev’s garden.