Wednesday, July 29, 2020

July 23 -28 2020 Silverthorne to Fort Collins, Colorado


In the morning we took a short hike before heading back to Fort Collins. Lucy walking in the burn with all the wild flowers. Death Camus, monks hood, bed straw, hare bells, goldenrod. 

View of Buffalo over the clear cut that saved all the houses when the fire came through. goldenrod and lupine, hare bells, bed straw and yellow flowers, butterfly and a heron I saw on my bike ride back in Fort Collins. 

Sunset over McMurry pond and the water park on the river. 

A few more basket centers. The top photo I poured the resin last week and just got the holes drilled today. The bottom photo I poured the resin yesterday and got them ground and drilled today.  

John made butternut bisque for dinner, and served kale quinoa salad and home made bread I made for dinner tonight on the deck. Yum yum! We had this grimacing  face in the clouds as we ate.  

Clouds on the lake tonight 

Cool sunset clouds on my way home on my bike ride. 

I had lunch with a couple of my former coworkers today at Georgia Boys BBQ in Fredrick, Co. It was great to see them. They each purchased one of my baskets. 

Beautiful, historic, downtown Fredrick, Co. The museum in Fredrick. It was closed.

A storm over the Rockies. There are some fabulous wood carving pieces in town. This one is an interpretation of the Devil Went down to Georgia, a song by Charlie Daniels. Also a couple eclectic pieces, like Ronald McDonald sitting on top of a garage and a monster. 

I stopped and visited my brother Jerry at his home on the way back. This is some of the garden by the lake at their complex. My pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow.

I found this bear mold in my studio. I made an aspen scene with sun rays highlighting a deer. It came out real cute. 8 x 6 inches. 




















Wednesday, July 22, 2020

July 22, 2020 Ptarmigan Trail, Silverthorne, Co

Highs in the high 70’s, partly sunny.

Today I hiked with Katy, Rosie and Cathy on Ptarmigan trail. Cathy and Katy ahead. Sego lily. 

Columbine and wild geranium.

Cow parsnip, monkshood, and twin berry. Cinquefoil.  

Fireweed and hare bells. The view from the lookout of Silverthorne, Dillion lake and the Ten mile range.

Sue,Rosie, Lucy, Katy and Cathy with the Gore range behind us. A small stream on the trail.  

Lupine and yellow flowers. Buckwheat with aspen trees.

Cathy, Katy and Lucy in a field of flowers. Katy and Cathy ahead on the flower lined trail with Peak One ahead. 

Rosie on the trail behind me on the flower lined trail.  Scarlet Gillia.  

Purple asters with hare bells. Red buckwheat. 
More scarlet gillia. 


Tuesday, July 21, 2020

July 14,-21 2020 Fort Collins to Silverthorne, Colorado

Only in the 70's today and it rained.

Rain on the lake. It rained on me the whole bike ride, but not enough to really get me wet. Sunset was only on the high clouds above the rain clouds. 

Sunset on the irrigation diversion dam on the river. Sunset the next night from our deck.

Keeping busy in the glass studio. Rain over the mountains as I rode my bike to John and Mandy's house for dinner. 

Great pesto dinner with John and Mandy after a nice kayak run down Bridges.  
More basket centers I made.  

Back in the 90's today. Stayed in. Sunset was a bit subdued tonight. A sign seen on restaurant door. 

I am up in Silverthorne with my friend Katy at her condo here at Buffalo Village. We went for a hike when we got here. There is an old burn by the condo and it is full of wildflowers. 

A gigantic clump of hare bells. Fireweed near burnt trees.

Yellow flowers and purple monkshoods. Hare bells and white bedstraw. 

Fireweed. Katy and her dog Lucy in front with A view of Dillion Lake below. 

Fireweed through a burnt tree. Wildflowers in the old burn. 
Sunset over Peak One from the condo.