September 26- October 7, 2026 Fort Collins, Colorado

 High of 84 and sunny.

I stopped on my bike ride to take a photo of the nice light on this lake and there was a rainbow. I went to this lake to get a rainbow shot, but it was gone and got this nice rain shower shot. 

Rainbow again. Then it started to rain on me. 

Rain on McMurry Pond. Another rainbow in the rainshower 

Screech Owl on the bike path. I knew they nested in this area, but had never seen any. A young woman pointed it out to me. Sunset on the same rainshower.

Cool clouds.

We had dinner at Rare for John's birthday. Greetings from Fort Collins, Colorado mural downtown.

Two nice sunsets. 

We have way too much kale in the garden, so I made some baked kale chips. They are yummy and use up a lot of kale. Another raven masterpiece finished for the upcoming Echter's show. 12 x 8 inches, slumped onto a wave mold. 

I had Dr appointments in Denver. I stayed with my friend Katy who had broken her leg. She had an appointment the same day and the same clinic, so I drove. Then we had lunch at our other friend Katie's house. Sunset back in Fort Collins on my bike ride. The trees are starting to turn fall colors here now. 

Two more sunsets. 

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.