Sunny and 80's today. Just like the snow storm and the smoke never happened. Beautiful.
I went with John to visit the bus at the storage place today. John drained the water tanks so he can have someone come in and winterize the bus. We don't know how long we will be staying here, but it got to freezing a couple nights this week and we don't want the bus to freeze.
I dyed some needles yellow. I tried a recipe using turmeric. It dyed them yellow, but they were kind of dull so I added the turmeric bath to some yellow dye that I saved from last year and they came out more of a harvest gold.This photo does not do the color justice. I got the rest of my needles out to inventory and see what I need to get and which ones I want to dye to fill in my inventory for when we take off in the bus. The yellow color shows up a bit better in this photo. Some of these are dyed, some boiled in glycerin and natural needles.
I am still polishing pyramids that I cast years ago and didn't have good enough polishing tools for. The picture does not show the sparkly dichroic glass in these. You have to see them in person and move them. I have 3 more left then I will be done with them. I was out of pendants with bicycles on them, so I made these. Plus a few with no bikes to fill out the kiln shelf.
I was out of cat pendants, so I made these guys. And some more beveled and polished pendants. I was busy during the forced stay indoors because of smoke and snow.
There is still some smoke on the horizon, but nothing like there was. You can see it in the sunset. The snow slowed down the fire but did not put it out. It is getting warmer and drier again so it will blow back up until we get colder wetter weather. John took me on a tour around Fort Collins. We started at Horse tooth Reservoir. As long as I have been living here I had not been to it. Through lovely foothills to Carter lake, Flat Iron lake and Pinewood lake. All are pictured here on the map.
A view though the smoke toward Fort Collins from the hogback. Horsetooth Reservoir only about 4-5 miles from Fort Collins.
Red rocks on the hogback. Looking up Big Thompson river Canyon.
Red rocks on the hogback. Carter Lake just west of Loveland.
A campsite overlooking Carter Lake. Carter Lake with yucca and sunflowers.
Looking back at Flatiron lake through the smoke. You can see Loveland in the distance. A trail around Pinewood Lake.
John walking to the spillway of Pinewood lake. We went through Stout, Colo, populations 47 1/2, past the Dam Store, best by a dam site. White asters and rabbit bush.
Pinewood lake spillway. When we got back I went biking. Here are wildflowers on the path by McMurry ponds.
McMurray ponds. Purple flowers, rabbit bush, golden asters (seen at Pinewood Lake) and purple asters seen riding my bike in town.
The path by the river that I rode my bike on.
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