Getting used to 90 degree days. Nice weather. Working on a job in Santa Fe this week. Evenings with Matt and the boys.
Taco Bell
From our camp at St Vrain we could see the Taco Bell in the distance on Highway 119. Judy was looking at birds through the binoculars and spotted some gray smoke rising from the Taco Bell roof. I put the telephoto camera on it. The smoke didn’t go away right away, so Judy called 911. Fire trucks rolled. Fire trucks from Longmont, Frederick, and even Loveland by the end of it. It was never flashy. We never saw flames. But we watched it smolder for half an hour. They waved a snorkel over it, but we never saw them put water on it either. Maybe it was a grease fire and they handled it from inside. Now there’s a fence around it.
Chatfield
Gone from St Vrain. Back at Chatfield.
Annie
Annie the dirt dog.
Shorebirds
Any walk around the ponds is to the sights and sounds of killdeer and spotted sandpipers. It’s not uncommon to be surrounded by killdeer, but we’ve never seen so many spotted sandpipers anywhere else.