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Bathroom Walls Road Stop
The bathroom is the most private room in our house. We don't invite people over to have a beer in our bathroom and it isn't the first part of the house we show guests. On the walls of Freeman's restaurant bathroom ,between Hermit's Lake and Creede,...
Wind Sock Boogie Coffee and doughnuts are ready
This wind sock, inflated early this morning, has flailing arms and an ambiguous smile on its face. Creede hasn't awoken yet, but June, the lady who lives in her parked Tiny House and sells food from her trailer cafe, is cooking already, at eight in the...
Digging in the Earth Creede, Colorado
Creede was established in the late eighteen hundreds. At the north end of town is a silver mine that has become a museum. Running through the middle of town is a river that carried mining sludge into the valley below that is now being reclaimed by...
Hummingbird Breakfast Morning snack
At seven in the morning, South Fork, Colorado is Closed. The Rainbow Grocery, down from the Rainbow Motel, opens at seven this morning. The Rainbow gas station, next to the Rainbow Grocery, is open but their coffee is not good enough to make me want to...
Animals on the Wall Rainbow Sporting Goods- South Fork, Colorado
These mounted animals look down at me like judges ready for my sentencing. Hung over the aisles of rods and reels, shotguns and rifles, fishing tackle, ammunition, these guys are frozen in their final moment of life. Hunters have always stayed close to...
Bulletin Board- Rainbow Grocery South Fork, Colorado
News is only a bulletin board away. The Rainbow Grocery is South Fork's main grocery and, besides food, you can buy fishing licenses here, camping gear, lures and flies, ice and bug spray. Right on the main drag, it is next to the Rainbow Motel , close...
Building Castles Antonito, Colorado
Leaving Antonito, Colorado, it is not hard to see two gleaming towers off to the east, the sun glistening off silver spires made out of hub caps, flattened beer cans, wire, window casements and whatever other material comes into the hands of it's...
Cumbres Toltec Railroad Back to yesteryear
Highway 285 winds it's way through Espanola, Ojo Caliente, Tres Piedras, Antonito, and eventually Alamosa, Colorado. Another way to see this high country is riding a narrow gauge railroad that runs from Antonito, Colorado to Chama, New Mexico and back....
1950’s Hamburger Stand Old Photos
Old photos, especially black and white, have a nostalgic quality. They often have no names or dates on the back, have edges that are dogeared or brown, wrinkles, mustaches drawn in with ball point pens by pranksters. They are sometimes in albums but...
Snail and Tortoise sticking your head out
Back in yesteryear, a school assignment, in English, was to compare and contrast apples and oranges. The assignment was dropped on us to develop critical thinking, stimulate observation, and bring order to our primitive minds. The assignment proved that...
Doing the Wash Laundry day
The washer and dryer at Ms. Sue's starts early in the morning and ends late at night. With forty two kids, clothes get dirty and, even with throw away diapers, there is hardly time to wash, dry,fold, and hang. Some of the clothes are hand washed in...
Tree of Life photographs
In a hallway to the tv room, on a wall in front of the boy's dorm, is a tree with kid's photos hanging like fruit. These photo's were taken some years back and the children have long since outgrown their photos, each day becoming something new, their...
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