October 9, 2025 Fort Collins, Colorado

 80 degrees and mostly sunny.

We decided to drive up the Poudre River and look at the fall colors. Unfortunately a large amount of the trees have been burned in wild fires. Some spots they are just starting to come back. But there are pockets of trees.

The aspens are beautiful when they turn. More areas of burn.

Heading down the Laramie river road. Looking east on the Laramie river road.

Golden aspens.

Heading up the Long Draw reservoir road. Snow on the peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Long Draw Reservoir. 

Small pond on the way back.  There was a pair of bald eagles scouting for dinner by the pond.

Beautiful colors at Elephant Head campground.

More aspens. Bald eagle, moose crossing, snow on a trail into Rocky Mountain National Park. more fall colors. 

We stopped for dinner at Mishawaka. We sat overlooking the river. Last light.  

Sunset on the way home.

September 19- October 5, 2025 Fort Collins, Colorado

 Cold and rainy.

I made this out of scraps from older pieces, murrine and puddles. Looks good in this leaf stand. 6 lbs of tomatoes. The vines are producing non stop. I canned a quart and John made tomato roasted red pepper soup. There are at least this many more in various stages of turning red and just as many green ones. 

Sunset. I made this piece out of scraps from old pieces too. It did not come out as sell. The left photo is before firing and the right is after. It will need some work. 

One of my crowns broke in half. The dentist replaced it with a ceramic crown made in his office. Here is the machine that turns this cube of ceramic with carbide bits into my crown. Thankfully we were still in town so I could get it taken care of before we left. I had lunch with my friend Mary. We worked together years ago in the lab in Frisco, Co. Nice to see her and catch up. 

Two sunsets.

Happy Birthday John! Dinner at the Blue Agave.

Sunset last night. Nice light on the railroad bridge on the Poudre River off the bike path. 

Bike path photos. Seems like the trees turned over night. 

Colors on the bike path.  Sunset.

Sunset. 

Sunset with no clouds.

The bus at the house, we started packing. But some issues are taking longer than expected to take care of, so the bus back in storage. Katydid joined us for diner on the deck.

First  Friday in Old town Square. A skate board event and kids playing in the fountain. The entrance to the Exchange. 

Moon over Old Town Square. Sunset.