September 19 -22, 2026 Fort Collins, Colorado

 70's, partly cloudy with rain.

Cool clouds on the drive back home.

The aspen are turning on the western slope.

Aspens. Aspens and the fall willows. 

Aspen. Approaching Cameron Pass. 

Cameron Pass. Sunset from the deck during dinner.

My purple coneflowers were volunteers and bloomed late. I love them. My sister sent a box of dates from her palm trees. They are not lasting long, they are very good!

I am working on masterpieces for the upcoming glass shows. This is the raven series. I have one more I am going to make, then decide which goes to which show. The big round ones look cool with the light coming through them. 

I had lunch with some of my coworkers from the lab at Humana today. Kay, Carol, Nancy and I. Always great to see them. Carol brought us gifts, Kay has a xmas ornament of toilet paper, Nancy a no politics t-shirt and I have a pink rubber chicken. These are jokes from when we worked together. Thank you Carol. 

I went a little overboard making glass animals from my scrap. There was a 15-20 minute wait to cross the tracks on my bike ride while about 100 windmill blades went by on the train. I was waiting with about 20 college students on their bikes. 

Sunset. 

September 17 - 18, 2026 Bogan Flats campground, Marble, Colorado

 Rain stopped, in the high 60's.

Birthday/ anniversary dinner at Bogan Flats group campground.

We had a enough musicians for a band for our entertainment. Still cool and partly rainy.

Beaver pond by my tents. Fall colored foliage. 

We went on a short hike. Clouds and fall aspens. 

Dancing around the fire the last night. John and Jeff. 

We visited our friends Mandy and John who are just moving into the house they have been building. It is at 7600 feet above El Jebel, Co. The living room from the entrance. The whole wall of windows have a view of Sopris peak, Capital and the Maroon Bells.  Beautiful,

Mandy, who is a woodworker built all the cabinets in the house. Including this wildly patterned bathroom cabinet. 

View out the guest room window. Deer frequent their property. 

Mandy, John and John.  Sunset on Capital Peak.

Their property is so high up you can watch clouds and  birds. A couple of vultures landed, and flew off. 

September 16-17 , 2026 Bogan Flats campground, Marble, Colorado

 Rainy and in the low 70s.

Views of aspens. We walked along the road to the campground.

Lots of flowers still blooming.

View from the campground. Turning aspen.

The lake outside of Marble, Colorado. The church in Marble, Colorado.

Martha took us on a tour of the Marble Mill in Marble, Colorado. Marble amphitheater .

Sculpture at the mill. The Marble Mill. 

Martha on a marble table at the mill. Fall colors and discarded marble by the river. 

Discarded marble around the mill. Ruins of the marble mill. 

Flowers. We are in bear country and a mural of the history of Marble. Giant slabs of marble recently taken from the mine ready for transport. 

Marble Statues around Marble ,Colorado.