Glenwood Springs Fire Department, Station 2

Glenwood Springs Fire Department, Station 2, 806 Cooper Avenue (101 West Eighth Street), Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, Colorado. Established in 1885, this station was built in 2004 and also houses the Fire Administration and Prevention offices on the Cooper Avenue Side. The apparatus dump out onto 8th Street. Two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs is where the Storm King Mountain Memorial is located.

Eastern Sunset

Sometimes the only thing better than watching the sunset in the west is seeing what it's doing to the east. Gotta love the high country of Colorado.

Kecks Corner

A postcard for you from the one and only Kecks Store at the intersection of Route 233 and Pine Road in Huntsdale, Pa. Been around since 1947. This was, for me, the place we would stop when we were out spotting deer. Swing in for a Dr Pepper and a snack. Stopped in here for "lunch" a time or two while working nearby years ago. A hundred times better than any 7-11.

The Autograph Box

I picked this camera up at the same sale as the Praktica. This is the one that caught my eye when I saw all the cameras that would be sold. Of course the views they showed of the camera didn't show all the graffiti.  I bought it as a tray lot of 4 or 5 cameras for 7 dollars. I see them on eBay for 30 bucks but they're not in this good shape. Nor are they autographed. Research tells me that this is a copy of an old Kodak No. 2 Hawk-eye (Model C). They built a half million of them in 1930 and gave them away to any 12 year old whose parents brought them to their local Kodak dealer. It came pre-loaded with film. This one was used for autographs. There's Mildred (it was either her camera or she was THE queen) Jack, Benn, Dan, George, Penny and R.M.M. on the left side Babe, John B., Berks, Peggy and James on the back. The right side is Ruth Ann, Jimmy and Happy. The front is Jaci (or Jack) and Milly (Mildred, again?) Bernard and some unknowns signed the top. And Deb, Berman and others tagged the bottom. Friends? Classmates? Just one of those things we will never know. 

Stop

I'm not the biggest fan of the black and white picture with selected color. (I'm sure real photographers have a name for this). But once in a while I think it works. The snow covered forest and the road, with the exception of the single yellow stripe, are fairly neutral in color. The browns and grays contrasted with the white snow is just perfect for a black and white conversion. Had I posted the original picture the stop sign would have stood out just as sore-thumbed as it does here (or is it sored-thumb?).

Big Game Camera Trapping

Yes, I think I told you all that I got a trail camera. Not just to feed my hunting habit but as a tool to take more pictures of interest to me. And thereby of interest to you. You remember the cow elk I got pictures of roaming the high county of Colorado after shooting hours don't you? (damn elk) Well it works just as well back east. I first waited for most of the big game hunting seasons to end before I deployed my camera trap. So, two weeks ago I went out in the fog (remember the fog?) and set the camera up on a potential trail I could find myself high above next fall. Evidence of such an active trail would have me pacing and waiting until October to climb a tree and wait for the sunrise to bring me a new and beautiful day. I let the trap set for a week. I could picture all the deer. Seven days. I could image that the big buck made it through all the hunting pressure unscathed. Saturday morning I hurried out to retrieve my treasure. The camera tripped 8 times. Seven times it was the wind blowing the brush near the camera. Once it was Rocky here. The long wait til fall is no match to the time I will have to myself, while suspended 15 feet above the ground, to see a squirrel climb a tree. Wish me luck.

Northern Flicker

OK, any Bird Nerd out there who wants to correct me, please have at it. This one had me baffled a bit. Not at all where I started looking. This is, I believe, a Northern Flicker, the eastern or yellow-shafted variety. Flickers are related to the woodpecker.