This rainbow chard was residing at the Boulder Farmers' Market. It's related to beets and it's origins are in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, not Switzerland. Loaded with vitamin K and C as well as magnesium, manganese and potassium, it's a good thing to chow on for minor things like healthy bones, eyes, heart, skin and immunity.
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CONTINENTAL DIVIDE (9.27.06) |
That's the Continental Divide back there, and all the water flowing down this side is headed toward the Atlantic Ocean. Those peaks are also part of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and mark the western edge of Boulder County. The highest ones you see here are almost 13,000 feet, though others in this range go over 14,000.
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Autumn Movement
By Carl Sandburg
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts.
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Case, a farm-equipment company started by Jerome Increase Case in 1842, built it's first tractor in 1853. This 1937 Case L now whiles away the years in the foothills just west of Boulder, Colorado. Note the hand-crank starter on the front.
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Javelina. They're not pigs. They are peccaries and they like to roam the highland desert and red rocks around Sedona, Arizona noshing on prickly pear and agave. Not these two, obviously, but their living, breathing kin. These two, on the other hand, were painted by artist Liam Herbert and are part of Sedona's Javelinas on Parade.
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Archeologists say this door was built around 880 years ago by people now called the Sinagua. Sinagua is Spanish for "without water," because there just wasn't much H20 near the cliff overhangs where these folks decided to set up house. Whether it was because of the tough water restrictions or otherwise, this cluster of cliff dwellings - now protected in the Walnut Canyon National Monument 10 miles east of Flagstaff - was abandoned after only about 125 years of use.
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Interstate 17 should really be called INTRAstate 17, since it's located completely within the state of Arizona. This is somewhere in between it's southern terminus, Phoenix, headed toward it's northern terminus, Flagstaff.
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Standpipe Shadow (9.19.06) |
Standpipes are everywhere, like this one at the top of a stairwell in Mill Valley, California. You probably passed one today somewhere. Do you remember?
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LIME GREEN ON SUNSET (9.18.06) |
It once was a bank. Then it was a holistic center. Now this lime green "spaceship" on the the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles houses Mutato Musica, a music and sound studio founded by Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the legendary new-wave group, Devo.
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FALL COMETH & THE WATER RUNETH (9.14.06) |
OK, so the water is runeth-ing slowly. This marshy section of Homestake Creek lies just off U.S. Route 24 in Colorado at almost exactly 9,000, and almost exactly halfway between the quaint, old railroad town of Minturn and the old mining town of Leadville (at 10,152 feet, Leadville lays claim to being highest incorporated city in the U.S.). Eventually, this water will flow into the Eagle River, then the Colorado River, merge with the Green River and run through the Grand Canyon. Whatever doesn't evaporate or isn't syphoned off by then will make a run for the Gulf of California in Mexico, somewhere around 1,700 river miles from this tranquil spot .
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PLAYGROUND DOME (9.13.06) |
once on the playground
up high on the climbing dome
i first touched the sky
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Yes! Stand up and be wonderful, unlike the person who scrawled this graffiti on the bathroom at Allison Espresso and Pastry Boutique. As the smeared words written by someone else below the main text says, "Guess what - everyone else doesn't suck, it's just you."
By the way, if you're ever in Boulder, Allison has the best espresso and coffee in town.
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"Lord, when is this guy going to stop taking pictures and let me sleep?"
(The average dog sleeps 14 hours a day. Bigger dogs may require up to 16 hours of sleep. It's a rough life.)
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SOUTH PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL (9.8.06) |
Welcome to the South Park Music Festival. Here, the singers of over 155 bands gasp for air as they try to belt out tunes at an elevation of 10,000 feet, and indie music types attend panel discussions on things like "Effecitve Touring and Maximizing Music Festivals."
Band playing in the backround: Lunar Event from Indianapolis, Indiana.
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The rest of the piece of masking tape alludes to the establishment, Illegal Pete's, as having trouble with people "walking off" with their hot sauce. Is it any wonder considering hot sauce's multiple uses? Not only does it put that sizzle and sweat in your mouth (among other places) but it can also be used to clean pennies and capsaicin, a key hot sauce ingredient, has been shown to kill human prostate cancer cells in cultures and in mice. FYI - Illegal Pete's has the BEST burritos in the Denver/Boulder area, period. Even some guy named Jack Johnson,
who apparently has a band or something and makes music for animated
monkey movies, says he was chowing down at one when he got the call that
Universal Records first wanted to sign him and his band.
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Gold Hill, Colorado
• Current population: 210
• Largest population during 19th century gold rush: about 1500
• Elevation: 8,300 feet (though others say 8463)
• Claim to fame: Site of one of, if not the, first major discovery of gold in Colorado, setting off the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859.
• Why go there now: Cookies as big as your head at the Gold Hill Store, the rustic ambience and fine dining of The Gold Hill Inn and the views of the Continental Divide just east of town.
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A portable climbing wall can weigh between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds. This would be a piece of cake for a tower crane like that yellow one, which can lift over 39,000 pounds. To put this in perspective, if that kid in the blue shirt had an average 8-year-old's weight of 61.25 pounds, the crane would be able lift 636.73 rugrats just like him all at the same time.
If you've ever wanted to know how they erect a tower crane, click here.
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Haiku
parked on the sidewalk
vibrant cycle from Thailand
rickshaw in Boulder
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