[04.07.2008] I have a friend whose son wanted to go see a baseball game. We thought about it and thought it would be fun go on the third of July. It would be a Thursday night game but there would be no work the next day due to the fourth of July holiday so we bought tickets. I have not been to Coors Field for about seven years and have been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks. As an added bonus the Colorado Rockies bas [more]

[29.06.2008] My daughter recently moved in and is working at City Park here in Westminster, Colorado where we live. One evening I was to pick her up from work and give her a ride back home. I had not been in that part of town for a while ad noticed while driving up there was a new memorial in the park so I thought I would go back later in the day (it is summer now and blazing hot) to investigate. I got there just as the sun wa [more]

[15.06.2008] My son is home from college and we felt that we needed to take a bit of a hike so we talked it over and picked Barr Lake for our adventure. Barr Lake is a state park located just outside Brighton, Colorado. It was formerly a buffalo wallow, a place where bison would roll in the dirt to rid themselves of ticks and other parasites. Since that time a dam was built to impound the water that currently occupies the lake. I [more]

[09.06.2008] Chautauqua Park is one of the jewels in the City of Boulder's multitude of parks and recreational opportunities the citizens of Boulder and Colorado get to enjoy. This particular park is located at the base of the Front Range that is the backdrop for the City of Boulder. The featured formation at this point of the mountains is known as the Flat Irons. They are a large rock formation formed when the mountain were form [more]

[25.05.2008] My recent trip to Chicago by car is a length journey along Interstate 80. Unlike the trip back which was to be a wheels up, peddle to the metal, sixteen hour straight shot home, the trip out was much more leisurely one with a stop along the way to refresh. When I left Denver there was no specific plan as to where to stay or what if anything special to see. I have not been on I 80 for decades and did not remember any [more]

[24.05.2008] I recently had occasion to take a road trip across the middle of the United States in my little red car. The purpose was to watch my daughter graduate from college in Illinois. Her college is located in a small town called Lake Forest a bit north of the city of Chicago along the shores of Lake Michigan. There are no hotels in Lake Forest itself but there are several in the nearby towns. So I picked one and we drove o [more]

[18.05.2008] I was on my way to Chicago to see my daughter graduate when I noticed a sign indicating there is a Danish windmill in Elk Horn, Iowa. I had been on the road some seven and a half hours and thought it would be a good place to stop for a number of reasons. First Elk Horn is the birth place of my grandmother and I have never been here before. Second I have a very good friend the really enjoys windmills and I thought a E [more]

[27.04.2008] My main objective to going to Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge was to photograph and video tape the courtship ritual of the Sharp Tailed Grouse which takes place during the month of April. I had tried earlier in the month but had been snowed out. Crescent Lake is some 350 miles give or take from my home and it is not a straight shot. After several hours of driving I got to a little town called Oshkosh, Nebraska [more]

[25.03.2008] I recently took the opportunity to do a tour of the Celestial Seasonings tea factory in Boulder, Colorado. Celestial Seasonings is a manufacturer of all sorts of teas most notably of the herbal type. The tour takes the participant past stacks and stacks of raw materials including hibiscus which I noted was from no less than three countries. There was also many other ingredients waiting to be processed. The tour takes [more]

[09.03.2008] As far as that goes it is also an oasis for people, this little island of trees in a sea of grass. Pawnee National Grasslands is the heart of the short grass prairie. The area is a semi arid expanse of open prairie broken by areas of gullies, buttes and small water ways. The average rainfall here is a mere 12 to 15 inches per year. This little spot provides a very important resting spot for many species of birds duri [more]