Monthly Archives: August 2004

I love little vignettes of simpler times..

Shaw Lake is a popular fishing spot but today we had it all to ourselves. I expect because it was no longer early and everyone had gone home to clean fish! Our neighbors and their friends came home with 19 … Continue reading →

It sometimes takes hours to cross the pass during the tunnel construction work. And the pass is closed after 10 o’clock on weeknights…a major pain! This has been going on for years and it’s got a ways yet to go. … Continue reading →

High in the San Juan Mountains, the water of Falls Creek begins to flow. Gaining momentum, it gathers in larger and larger rivulets until a stream is born. Flowing with the pull of gravity, the stream surges into Falls Creek … Continue reading →

  Cat for Sale…house included!

Don’t you think this would make a nice little Bed and Breakfast?  

Silverton is a root’n toot’n western (tourist) town. I love the little shops here and the flavor of the old mining town that still lingers on. I wonder what the old timers would think of ‘this’ Silverton? Me thinks they … Continue reading →

This valley at the foot of Wolf Creek Pass has a notorious past…as do many of the places of early pioneer days. Before the road up over the Pass was even dreamed of…this beautiful, lush, mountain enclosed, grass filled valley … Continue reading →

  I love old steam engines with their massive size and power and sudden roaring blast of steam and clanging bells. We visited Silverton , Colorado today and as many times as I’ve seen the trains there…they draw me back. … Continue reading →

  I keep going outside to read and end up watching the antics of these funny little critters instead! There are dozens of them everywhere. Every once in a while I’ll look down and one will be sitting on my … Continue reading →