October 8-20, 2026 Fort Collins, Colorado to Saratoga, Wyoming

 80's and sunny. Love Indian Summer.

John and I walked around FoCo fall fest in downtown.  John and I at the photo booth at the fest. 

Dog piles on top, for wire wrapping and centers for baskets. The fall colors are lovely along the river. 

The fall colors are lovely along the river. 

Fall colors along the bike path. Bright cottonwood ,

The Poudre river.  My garden has gone nuts. I have been harvesting. I had 6 big basil plants and 4 big tomato plants.The netted plant is one of the basil. 

Huge pile of harvested basil leaves, a small part of our tomato harvest this year, 4 kinds of oregano and rosemary. John cooked up some squash that volunteered in the front yard. I made 24 packed cups of basil into pesto. Yum Yum.

The bus is parked in front of the house, we are loading up. The waterpark with fall colors on my bike ride.

Bike trail with fall colors. Autumn cottonwood. 

Jewels I beveled and polished for wire wrapping. We are on the road again! The bus at Saratoga Lake outside of Saratoga, Wyo.

Saratoga free hot springs. Very nice. We had dinner at the Snowy Range Brewery. 

Born and Raised in Wyoming, bear crossing, diesel is $6.48 a gallon and a buck wandering around in downtown Saratoga, Wyoming.  Sunset over the lake. 

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.