Thursday, October 23, 2014

Furnace Town


One of our October photo shoots with the Coastal Camera Club was to Furnace Town, a restored area depicting the site devoted to the manufacture of iron ore in the late 1800s.  As usual, we carried a list of scavenger hunt photos to shoot.  Among these pictures are items from my list.  Can you identify them?  
His and Her outhouse, Wash tub, Woven basket, Blacksmith, Oil lamp, Organ, Bird house, Flower pots, Broom







    
Large furnace





red doors







inside the church



 






Love this wreath!
 






working with this spider web




punch of red












inside the building with the looms







Fun day!




Friday, October 10, 2014

Traveling on......to Colorado


Our final big jaunt this year was to Colorado for a reunion with dear friends in Monument, then onto Pagosa Springs for adventures in southern Colorado.





The ladies stayed with Donna while Mike and the guys stayed elsewhere and spent the four days hiking and sight seeing around Colorado Springs.


Jim loves the red rocks and took many pictures of them.




Our first trip with the Divas was to Pikes Peak, traveling on the cog railroad.  And yes, I did whiff the oxygen when we got to the top.



We traveled on this train up, up, up to 15,000'




We could have walked out onto the clouds!  Also, there was a gift shop on top as well as hot donuts!




Another trip was to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument where petrified tree stumps such as this one have been preserved and protected.



Our last evening was spent eating out and planning the photo book we will dedicate to Barb.


On we traveled to Durango




where we boarded a bus to Silverton and trained back to Durango. The train pulled right into the middle of Silverton!




Here we go on a thrilling three hour ride in an open car, all the better to photograph the steep cliffs we passed through.





In Mesa Verde National Park, Jim hiked to Balcony House, one of the cliff dwellings built centuries ago.



Pagosa Springs





Chimney Rock




Pagosa Peak as seen on a four hour tour through the San Juan Forest which surrounds Pagosa Springs.



On this Jeep tour we drove through a ghost town called Pagosa Junction.  Pagosa means "healing".








We also drove on reservation land.





And saw elk!  Note the alpha male.



This was our view from our back porch where each morning we watched hot air balloon launches.






And on our last day we watched a festival of many balloons being launched.