Saturday, July 6, 2019

July 2-6, 2019 Fort Collins, Colorado

92 degrees and partly sunny.

The young men who live next door are out of town for the 4th. I am watching their chickens. They love me, when I get near the hen house they all rush over to see me. I also collect the eggs.  John coming up the stairs from BBQing dinner.  

The presentation is wonderful. Love the BBQ'd onion blossom, sweet potato and pepper steak. John's beer in the sunset as we enjoy dinner on our deck. 

We rode the bus to City Park for the fireworks last night. A photo of the crowds at the food trucks. We walked over the Dave and Claire's house, they live on the park and visited. It poured rain while we were there. They have only been home for 3 days, been busy boating and traveling. It was fun to see them. 

Sunset clouds after the storm. 

Sunset and John and I in front of our very wet chairs. We sat wet and soggy and cold and listened to the Fort Collins Symphony play patriotic songs and watched the fireworks. 

We were seated behind a tree, but could see the fireworks though it just fine. The camera tho saw the tree and made for interesting photos. Some flowers and a deer from along the bike path.

Sunset and the sliver moon through the clouds. 

We walked to Old Town square. They had a free concert on the stage and it was first Friday. John wanted to get free cookies at the galleries, but we didn't get there till 9pm and that is when the concert was over and the galleries closed up. We did see this lady in costume, not sure what she represented but she also closed down at 9pm. Oh well. We got back just in time before this huge storm rolled through. Hail up to 3/4 inches. I got a tarp over the vegetable garden just in time. 

The garden survived the storm ok. The tomatoes have blooms now and the basil gets really bruised when it hails on it. So far so good. John got for my birthday season 3 loads of mulch and has been mulching the garden. The south side of the house is done. What a sweetheart, thanks dear! i decided to rehab it a bit since we haven't in years. 

The front garden. John has mulched the left side so far, A stream entering the Poudre river on the bike path. I like to ride in the evening because the light is so pretty.

Wild shasta daisies along the bike path. Nice light on the river on the bike path.

Light through the trees on the bike path. A trout on one of the bridges over the river.

The front garden as I biked home.My rehabbing og the garden has mostly been digging and cutting back plants that have overgrown. I planted some new ones too, but all these blooms are on the existing plants. Sunset started like this.
Then sunset morphed into this. 

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