June 4-13, 2017 Fort Collins/Denver, Colorado

Back at the sticks and bricks house. We left the  bus off for routine maintenance in Denver.

The basket so far in place where it will be when it is done.  I will be working on glass now that I am in Fort Collins, so not sure when I will finish this.  John and I went out to the Chocolate Cafe to celebrate our anniversary.  Chocolate martini and ultimate chocolate cake-to die for.

Back in Fort Collins, no smoking in old town, even marijuana, cotton wood cotton is so thick on the bike path it looks like snow. I got another turkey roaster at Good will and am boiling pine needles in glycerin. I hope to do a year's worth of needles here since I am not taking the turkey roaster on the bus. I think they will dry better here than the last batch I did in Oregon. Sunset from the house.

I made a few jewels, I mounted up the jewels I made in the class in Las Vegas and fused some of the new dichro I bought in Vegas. Roses my sweet hubby gave me for our anniversary.

Sunset. We walked down to old town and there was a free Thursday night concert. The Blue Canyon band.

Drying needles. At least they dry here unlike in Oregon where the humidity was so high they never did. John made a scrumptious dinner for Larry, Clare and Dave. Larry is visiting from Salt Lake to boat on the Poudre with John. I am too wimpy to boat at this high water level even if I could keep up with them.

The Glass Artists of Colorado June Picnic in Denver at Karol's house. The lower part of the photo are part of Karol's fence she made with bottles. She has lots of cool glass inside, but I didn't get any good photos of it. I walked around my old neighborhood in Denver. This is sunset over a family of ducks on Berkeley Lake which is a half block from my old house.

Sunset reflections on the lake. I went by my old house. The new owners took down the picket fence. It looks a little naked to me now.

There was a huge hail storm a few weeks ago. Lots of new roofs and windows. The neighbors picket fence and another neighbors vinyl siding didn't do well. Looks like the skylights in my old house are broken too. This is a photo of downtown Denver from the Kaiser Franklin building. I think I take the same photo each time I go, it is such a great view. I visited all my drs, got my yearly tests done, even the dentist and I am still healthy. Must be the good living.

After my last appointment at Kaiser my car would not start. I called AAA and this gentleman came right out and installed a new battery on the spot for a very reasonable price. He would have just jumped it for free, but then I would have had to find somewhere to get the battery charged up and he recommended replacing the battery soon anyway, it has been dying a lot. So I just had him do it. AAA has been worth every penny I pay for it. I took another walk around Berkeley lake this evening. I used to live half a block from it and I always loved the evening light here.

There a tons of these red winged blackbirds around the lake. They used to come to my bird bath in the backyard.  Sunset this evening.