October 20-24, 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

 70's, sunny and smoky.

I am making a new desert piece to correct some of the problems I see in the first one. It will be a bit different. Hopefully better. I went out biking this morning. It was sunny and low 60's. The smoke is not bad so far today. A view of the Poudre river from the bike path. Some of the trees are dropping their yellow leaves, but there are still plenty left. The river is very low. 

Smoky sunsets.

There is a new very big fire also to the west of us. The Troublesome fire. It is growing at alarming rates. Yesterday it was very dark out. Automatic light sensor lights were on. We could see blue sky to the north, south and east, but now where we are. The second desert plate in the kiln for it's first firing. It has a Joshua tree in it.

We had a cold front come though. This was all the precip we got. Won't help much with the fires. A bigger storm is coming this weekend. It may help, but the winds today and tomorrow will just fan the flames ahead of the storm. Fall leaves in the yard and street. 

Fall leaves in Library park a half block from our house. Fall colors in Gustov Swansen city park.

 A shelter at the new water park along the river. The upper wave at the waterpark under the railroad bridge. 

A frozen great blue heron. It was only 35 degrees. Tree roots near a diversion dam.

 The second desert after it's first firing. It devitrified, which make the surface kind of a gacky matte finish instead of shiny. Will have to fix that before I can continue with it. They were moving some water downstream so the river was up for the first time in months. It was 37 degrees when we left the house. John at the put in.

Me in my boat. The fall colors were lovely. It was gray and smoky, so the colors did not show up as nice as they are. 

The river level gauges said river was at 400 cfs. The new water park had lots of boaters on the play wave. 

John exiting the new water park. John upstream from a pedestrian/bike bridge. 

Me going over the diversion dam.