Hey! HEY! It’s time for another ThrowBack Thursday! You’d think I’d be out of material for these posts by now, but I just keep digging up more. For example, during February 2011, a dear friend moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee – and I went out to … Continue reading Historic Fort Wood Neighborhood (February 2011)
If you’ve been reading this blog from its beginning, you should already know that the area around Fruita, Colorado is one of my favorite places on Earth. At least two previous ThrowBack Thursdays (one and two) have been dedicated to the area. Today we go … Continue reading N. Fruita Desert & Mt. Sanitas (Spring 2011)
I have a pond in my backyard. I also have several trees in my backyard. Not surprisingly (since I live in North Carolina), this means my property is home to both tree frogs and pond frogs. But during my first spring at this house, when the frogs started their nightly hollering, I noticed some of the sounds coming from the pond didn’t seem…natural. In addition to the low-pitched croaks of the pond frogs and the high-pitched peeps of the tree frogs there came a most unusual sound. A sound unlike anything I’ve heard anywhere, except maybe in 1950’s science fiction movies. I concluded that my pond had been invaded by alien frogs. I have waited over three years for the opportunity to make First Contact with these beings from another world. In that time, I have seen a few tree frogs, and many pond frogs – but no aliens. Finally, last week, one of the alien frogs made an appearance on my patio furniture. Behold…the first known photos of a frog from another planet…
Since I already had my camera out, and he was just a few feet away, I also grabbed a gratuitous shot of Bear lazin’ in the shade…
The frog and I are still working on finding a translator, so we can begin a knowledge transfer between our two great cultures.
Howdy and welcome to another episode of ThrowBack Thursday. Today we’re throwing up back to August of 2011, when I took a day trip to Leadville, Colorado and another day trip (on another day, don’t ya know) to Caribou Ranch, also in Colorado. Everyone please … Continue reading Leadville & Caribou Ranch (August 2011)
During the summer of 2011, I moved from the city of Longmont to the city o’ Lakewood. The apartment I moved into would be my last residence in Colorado, but I didn’t yet know that. What I did know was that I loved my new … Continue reading Lakewood, Colorado (August 2011)
In early September of 2011, I went on a day trip to one of the most interesting (and touristy) historic areas in Colorado: the Cripple Creek Mining District. This mining district has produced more gold than any other Colorado mining district. And last I knew, … Continue reading Cripple Creek Mining District (September 2011)
Welcome, ghost town fans! For this week’s ThrowBack Thursday, we visit Silver Creek, Colorado. Silver Creek was a short-lived mining camp near Georgetown, and it’s definitely one of Colorado’s lesser known ghost towns. In researching for today’s post, I consulted the two Colorado ghost town … Continue reading Silver Creek, Colorado (Sept 2011 and July 2012)
If you’ve ever been to downtown Golden, Colorado, the picture above probably seems familiar. If you’ve ever lived in the area, you probably know that you’re looking at Castle Rock, and that it projects off a “corner” of South Table Mountain. Yes, I know there … Continue reading Golden’s Castle Rock (January 2012)
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a ThrowBack Thursday around here. What say we do one right about now? Well, all right then! Let us voyage back twelve years, to early March of 2012, to a place on the eastern edge of Boulder, … Continue reading Sawhill Ponds (March 2012)
Day 12: On this day, I went to the Nevada Railroad Museum. I wanted to see ONE thing here, as I had read a little about that one thing and was highly intrigued by it. That one thing was their McKeen Motor Car. The description … Continue reading Nevada 2024 Trip Report (Days 12 through 14)
Voyages with Parkinson's 