September 29-30, 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

 85, clear, except  for the smoke from the Cameron Fire to the West  and the Mullen Fire to the north. 

Orange smoke light on the bike path.

Orange smoke light on the bike path.

Orange smoke light on the bike path. The sun was red. 

Red sun and smoker on the horizon. The masterpiece is being redesigned. 

One of these dichroic ravens will be in the sky. John stayed up late smoking a brisket. It took longer than he thought it would. 

The sky at 4pm with the smoke and red sun. This picture is a lame combination shot of the smoke , red sun and the garden at around 4 pm. I could not get both in focus for one photo. 

Sunset tonight on the smoke in the west. There are two fires, Mullen fire in Wyoming and Cameron fire just up Poudre /canyon. They are getting so big they are only 16 miles apart and there is a fear that they may burn together My latest masterpiece redesigned. There is contact paper on the glass so the colors are more bright than this.

Me with my new cheap internet glasses from Zenni. My cataracts are growing in such a way that my prescription is changing rapidly. Don't need expensive glasses if I am not using them that long. They are probably not strong enough to survive me, since I break everything I touch. But hopefully they will last long enough. 

September 25-28, 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

 Low 80's. 

Last week John's smoker died, so he got this new fangled programable pellet smoker smoker. There was some assembly required. I was dying pine needles. These are 6 different batches of the same emerald rit dye. 

Fall colors on the bike path.

More fall colors and pre sunset on my ride.

Some deer and sunflowers and more pre sunset. 

Not sure if these are the red dye or the  wine dye from last year. It was unlabeled. This hibiscus is blooming now in our yard.. 

It is really smoky today. The tall building is only a few blocks away and our house in the smoky air. It smells too strongly of smoke and burns your eyes. 

Smoky sunset tonight.

Homemade pizza for dinner. Yum yum. Still dying needles. Red wine  on top of camel-which came out olive green. 

I am working on a new masterpiece of a desert canyon. So far it is not coming together. It was in the 30's last night and the 60's today. The fire is still burning. A smoky sunset tonight.

Today is John's birthday. Here he is with his birthday dinner of beef stroganoff and roasted broccoli, in his birthday bathrobe. 

September 22-23, Fort Collins, Colorado

 We went looking for aspen trees that had turned for the fall. Usually we would go up Poudre Canyon, but it is on fire now. 

The skyline in Estes Park. Welcome to Lake Estes. We viewed Peaceful Valley. Aster, we hiked in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and some golden aspen leaves.

Longs Peak. Hula hooping moose, Bears in the campgrounds here and some elk along the road.

Golden aspens. 

A few orange aspen leaves. A hillside of aspens.

Aspen grove. Beaver lake. 

Hallett peak over Beaver lake through the aspens. We did a nice hike at Brainard Lake area. 

Brainard Lake with the Indian Peaks to the west.  Fall foliage with Brainard lake. 

We hiked to Long lake. 

It rained while we were out. It was nice to see rain after such a dry summer. Hallett peak with the storm overhead. 

Camp robbers were almost trying to eat our sandwiches at our mouth. Moose hunting season is going on. Big horn sheep. Weird looking sunset clouds. 

Sunset tonight. My brother Jerry bought us dinner for our birthday's. Mine was in July, John's and Jerry's birthdays are next week. We had dinner at the sushi restaurant. The outdoor seating was in front of the restaurant where the parking spaces were. 

We gave Jerry the blow up cactus that my sister had sent me for my birthday. It may end up being a pass around gift.