Sunday, November 22, 2015

Boulder 2015

We flew November 11 to Jim and Faye's to spend a few days.  One of the first visits after we arrived was to see the Mahaffy cache, 83 Clovis-era stone tools discovered in 2008 by a crew digging a fishpond in a Boulder yard, opened for viewing at the CU Museum of Natural History only in October.
Protein residue tests of the tools indicated that some were used to butcher camels and horses some 13,000 years ago.
The museum is small but has a number of other fine articles on display, including an unusual shaped pot with handle
and a nice carrying basket.
We drove to Longmont for breakfast with
Shawn and Ginger, Taylor and Joshua.  For this photo, Joshua is under the table.
On the day before a predicted storm, we drove up Trail Ridge
and took requisite tourist photos.
And this is what you see:  the highest point in the right quarter of the shot is Longs Peak, the top 14,259 feet above sea level.
Deb stands on the edge.
Snow blows off Longs Peak as clouds begin to move in.
In Estes Park, Faye and Deb shopped while Jim and I lunched at Lonigans (Guinness on tap), located in what once the lobby of the Hupp Hotel, built in 1907 or 8 (sources differ), the same year as the Stanley.
When we emerged, we discovered a six-point trying to negotiate the traffic on Elkhorn Avenue.
Last we saw, he was headed out of town.  We followed not long after, but in a different direction.

While the weather continued to change, Jim and I walked his neighborhood so I could take a few shots of the "Mushroom House,"
designed in 1969 by Charles A. Haertling, used for a brief sequence in Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper.
Haertling also designed Jim and Faye's house, which one can find illustrated on the web.

The storm arrived overnight, but to the south, where Castle Rock got 18 inches, snarling traffic and closing schools, while the Denver airport got only a few inches.
We flew out about 40 minutes late, and I managed a few shots of new snow.















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