July 9 - 13, 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

Been in the high 90's. I have been hiding out inside and then going out biking near sunset when it is cooler, and prettier.

This huge lily I planted in front of the house. started blooming today. It is very fragrant.  The sun is making this smoke stack look like a lighthouse. 

Sunset tonight was spectacular. Over a kayaker fishing in North Shields ponds, and through the trees.  

The colors kept changing. There is a fisherman here fishing in the Poudre river. Sunset over McMurry pond.  

Last light on this big ole cloud. My new Ipad with a recipe from the flash drive set up near the kitchen so I can check the recipe while cooking. I had it in the kitchen another day, but I dropped a huge onion on it, so it is on the dining room table.  My old amazon tablet would not let me do this. 

40 pairs of earrings ready for firing. Stacks of three pieces of glass. Each cut exactly the same size so the earring are the same  size, pains takingly  balanced perfectly so they will turn out right. If you have to adjust one, you end up knocking over the surrounding ones and it is a huge mess trying to get it back together without knocking any more over. It is very tedious. It took about 3 hours to get these cut and arranged. They will fire overnight then I get to glue tiny little findings to them. These things are hard because everything is so small. Sunset tonight downtown. 

Sunset tonight is the renovated alley's downtown.  Cute little hanging lights, many business's. 

The big lilies exploded into 8 blooms today. You can smell them from the sidewalk. My glass studio in the garage is very dark, esp at night-top photo- so I installed two more shop lights in the front and viola there is light!

Sunset was spectacular again tonight. I rode my bike farther and much later than  I meant to to get photos over the lake. I got back after dark. 

Last one tonight. Egad, it was 101 degrees Monday.

Evening colors on the bike path. Some flowers seen out biking and a glass pickle I made. 

Sunset at the Exchange, a new area in Fort Collins. Many of the buildings are made of metal shipping containers that go on the back of semi's and Little Man Ice Cream in the center.