The first class in the morning was taught by Hayashi Sensei from California. She had us practice a modified randori (free-style) with foam tubes used by children for swimming. This removed some of the fear of getting hit it but did show where I was weak in responding to multiple attackers.
The second class was outdoors with Doran Sensei. We picked up from Tuesday's class with first weapons and then open-handed follow-up. We practiced the irminage from Tuesday class and then added a kotegoshi variation that flowed from the same entering movement from the irminiage.
The third class was Ushiro Sensei's class. The class was based on the Sanchin kata, the fundamental kata of Shindo-ryu Karate. The practice built upon the beginning movement of the kata to illustrate ki and how ki can overcome pure physical muscle.
The forth class was Saotome Sensei's indoor class. The focus was on ki verse muscle and Saotome Sensei showed how it is relates to irminage, kotegoshi, and kokyu-nage.
In the fifth class, Ikeda Sensei had us pair practice with the jo. Again, he demonstrated how ki is different from muscle and that we should also practice not if we were in a contest of strength or in a tournament, but in a way to help our partners and to be honest in our intent.
The sixth class was taught by Choate Sensei. His techniques and demostrations focused on pressure points or meridians connected through the underside of the lower and upper arm. I was confused as was most of my partners during the practice. I did find a good pressure point on the underside of the lower arm but that wasn't quite what Choate Sensei was demonstrating. After class I was thanking one of my partners and his partner was demonstrating other pressure points such as the shoulder and the soft spot on the neck. I was called a "fat bastard" because this guy couldn't find the pressure points in my neck and he said I need to learn ukemi because I didn't wilt under his pressure points. I have to laugh about all of this, as it is another instance of the "one true way" of believing one's one style is always correct. I experienced this in the past and hopefully one thing I have learned during this summer camp is that there are multiple ways of technique and budo. I do admit I am not in great ukemi shape but I know it is there if I practice more.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Aikido Summer Camp Day 4: Tires Interlude...
Yesterday morning my plan was to wash my gis and then attend practice at 3:00. Everything changed when I went outside to my Rodeo carrying my gym bag filled with sweaty gis and clothing. My left front tire was flat! I discovered that I didn't have all of the tools necessary to change my tire,(I was missing the lug iron and rod for the spare tire). I called two tire stores, the first refused to come out and help and the second was the Shell station in Glenwood Springs. After about an hour and a half the owner finally came out with a tow truck and moved my SUV into town where I went ahead and purchased two new front tires. Ouch. I made it back to CMC with only five minutes before the next class and I still hadn't done any laundry. I went ahead and skipped the class to do my laundry.
In evening there was a barbecue and afterward I went to the Aiki store and spent too much money; over $70 for a Boulder Aikikai DVD and a t-shirt, and Ushiro Sensei' book on Karate.
In evening there was a barbecue and afterward I went to the Aiki store and spent too much money; over $70 for a Boulder Aikikai DVD and a t-shirt, and Ushiro Sensei' book on Karate.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Aikido Summer Camp Day 3
The first class at 6:30 in the morning was taught by Hara Sensei. Most of the class focused on ukemi, both forwards and backwards rolls. I must have had a short-circuit for being up some early because I could do a sitting backward roll on my left side. When doing a technique or rolling on my right side I didn't have any problems but for some reason I couldn't do something I have been doing since 1997. I tried to cover it up, but, again I am experiencing more of a beginner's mind set.
The second class was held outdoors and was taught by Ushiro Sensei. I thought we were going to work on weapons, but instead we worked on ki and breath training exercises. He demonstrated fine control in the exercises, emphasizing opening the mouth when doing ki training. Again, I learned a lot from his class with the karate focus on breath control.
The third class I attended was Saotome Sensei's indoors class. Saotome Sensei lectured about budo and the how budo is not just about survival of oneself, but also extending to one's family, nation, and the world. His techniques were about extending ki through your hands and about extending into one's partner.
The forth class was taught by Ikeda Sensei with his focus on katetori ki and flowing from one's center. When uke grabs and presses down, the mechanics of the attack makes uke lighter and easier to move. At least that is how he demostrated, when I tried the techniques, it varied depending on uke and my own ki awareness.
The fifth class was Doran Sensei's outdoor's weapons class. We alternated between bokken and empty hand with Doran Sensei stating that when you practice with the sword, you need to practice like you have open hand and when you practice open hand, believe you have weapon. His class showed the relationships between weapon practice and empty hand practice. A good and enjoyable class and I learned a new irminage variation.
The sixth and final class was taught by a guest instructor Sakabe Sensei. His style was different from all of the other instructors at Summer Camp but actually was the most familiar to me as it reminded me of the Tohei Sensei from MAC and follows Knut's style as well. The class went longer and I wish he would teach more classes this camp.
Tomorrow is a "fun" day with only two Aikido classes. My plan is to do laundry in the morning and then try some fly fishing on the Colorado river.
The second class was held outdoors and was taught by Ushiro Sensei. I thought we were going to work on weapons, but instead we worked on ki and breath training exercises. He demonstrated fine control in the exercises, emphasizing opening the mouth when doing ki training. Again, I learned a lot from his class with the karate focus on breath control.
The third class I attended was Saotome Sensei's indoors class. Saotome Sensei lectured about budo and the how budo is not just about survival of oneself, but also extending to one's family, nation, and the world. His techniques were about extending ki through your hands and about extending into one's partner.
The forth class was taught by Ikeda Sensei with his focus on katetori ki and flowing from one's center. When uke grabs and presses down, the mechanics of the attack makes uke lighter and easier to move. At least that is how he demostrated, when I tried the techniques, it varied depending on uke and my own ki awareness.
The fifth class was Doran Sensei's outdoor's weapons class. We alternated between bokken and empty hand with Doran Sensei stating that when you practice with the sword, you need to practice like you have open hand and when you practice open hand, believe you have weapon. His class showed the relationships between weapon practice and empty hand practice. A good and enjoyable class and I learned a new irminage variation.
The sixth and final class was taught by a guest instructor Sakabe Sensei. His style was different from all of the other instructors at Summer Camp but actually was the most familiar to me as it reminded me of the Tohei Sensei from MAC and follows Knut's style as well. The class went longer and I wish he would teach more classes this camp.
Tomorrow is a "fun" day with only two Aikido classes. My plan is to do laundry in the morning and then try some fly fishing on the Colorado river.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Aikido Summer Camp Day 2
Well, I started camp this morning with the 6:30 class taught by an older, diminutive instructor. After, that I took Saotome Sensei's outdoor weapons class which had a Hamlet theme, "to be or not to be". Using a wooden bokkan requires focus with the knowledge that death is always present and if you lose your concentration, you will cease to be.
The third class I attended was Ushiro Sensei's class that focused on ki exercises following his karate tradition. An interesting side effect of taking Ushiro Sensei classes are that most of the black belts are at the same level of training as I am, so it does level the field. Too often to my liking, Aikido becomes so insular and while my sempi are better, it doesn't reflect the board and depth of modern budo.
The forth class was Doran Sensei's tachi-waza class (open-hand). Doran Sensei used two different iremi variations based on the sword to illustrate the ikkyo, nikkyo, and sankyo techniques. The first is the standard slide in, palm down. The second variation is hand-up with sku strike to the throat of uke.
The fifth class was Ikeda Sensei's outdoors weapon classes. We practiced pair bokken and although I have once or twice practices these techniques, it was great to be taught these techniques from a master.
I am sore and ready to go sleep, but I am headed to Glenwood Spring's Hot pool for some relaxation and I may hit a bar afterward. I am the driver so minimal alcohol consumption tonight. I don't want to stay up too late because I am going to try to make to the 6:30 class tomorrow morning.
The third class I attended was Ushiro Sensei's class that focused on ki exercises following his karate tradition. An interesting side effect of taking Ushiro Sensei classes are that most of the black belts are at the same level of training as I am, so it does level the field. Too often to my liking, Aikido becomes so insular and while my sempi are better, it doesn't reflect the board and depth of modern budo.
The forth class was Doran Sensei's tachi-waza class (open-hand). Doran Sensei used two different iremi variations based on the sword to illustrate the ikkyo, nikkyo, and sankyo techniques. The first is the standard slide in, palm down. The second variation is hand-up with sku strike to the throat of uke.
The fifth class was Ikeda Sensei's outdoors weapon classes. We practiced pair bokken and although I have once or twice practices these techniques, it was great to be taught these techniques from a master.
I am sore and ready to go sleep, but I am headed to Glenwood Spring's Hot pool for some relaxation and I may hit a bar afterward. I am the driver so minimal alcohol consumption tonight. I don't want to stay up too late because I am going to try to make to the 6:30 class tomorrow morning.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Aikido Summer Camp Day 1
Well, I just finished dinner and in about an hour the first classes start for my week of Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies. I have a nice room at Colorado Mountain College and (as you can tell) I have Internet access to boot! Getting here was quite the adventure. I decided to follow the Google Map's directions between Gunnison and Glenwood Springs which took me over to Mt. Crested Butte, past Gothic, and over Schofield Pass. Well, I won't go into too much detail other than it was some of the scariest mountain driving I have ever done in my life and once I finally got over the pass, and then past a warning sign that the mountain road requires expert 4wd with a high base, I came to a creek and thank-goodness there was a woman resting who told me that my SUV would not make it. I turned around and drove back over the pass, past Gothic and back through Crested Butte. I then took Kebler Pass to C-133 which took me through Carbondale and then it was a quick trip to CMC. I spent and extra hour and half and only went 40 miles round trip on my little detour. I learned a couple of things; 1. Never trust Google Maps when planning a trip in the Colorado Rockies, it can take you places where you don't belong 2. I am not expert off-road driver and I don't really want to be one. The scenery was spectacular and I was able to take a couple of photos, one of a large water fall coming off the mountain.
Tonight's classes are being taught by Saotome Sensei, Doran Sensei, and Ushiro Sensei. I don't know if I'll feel up to going to the 6:30 class tomorrow morning but I'm going to try to blog every day of Summer Camp. While waiting in line, I met a number of delightful people from Arizona; one a public librarian from Scottsdale Sharon and Todd.
UPDATE: I just got back from this evening's classes and I enjoyed all three master instructors. I couldn't hear very well (granted my hearing is poor anyways) but I thought Saotome Sensei say something interesting, "Violence occurs when you are not confident in yourself". Neat and nice way to began the this week of Aikido budo.
Tonight's classes are being taught by Saotome Sensei, Doran Sensei, and Ushiro Sensei. I don't know if I'll feel up to going to the 6:30 class tomorrow morning but I'm going to try to blog every day of Summer Camp. While waiting in line, I met a number of delightful people from Arizona; one a public librarian from Scottsdale Sharon and Todd.
UPDATE: I just got back from this evening's classes and I enjoyed all three master instructors. I couldn't hear very well (granted my hearing is poor anyways) but I thought Saotome Sensei say something interesting, "Violence occurs when you are not confident in yourself". Neat and nice way to began the this week of Aikido budo.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
W Mountain Folsom Archaeology Site
Today I went on a field trip with the some of the other library staff to the Folsom Archaeology Site on Tenderfoot ("W") Mountain. The tour was headed by Casey Dukeman, a lecturer and archeologist on this site. He started off with some background about Folsom period, which covered from 10,500 to 8000 B.C.E., and the Tenderfoot site is one of the few sites that have structures from these prehistoric Native-Americans. Most Folsom people were hunter-gathers but the Folsom site has two different structures that are/have been excavated so far. The first photo is the first building site where Casey theorized was used for construction of stone weapons and may have been used as a guest or bachelor dwelling. Carbon-dating of bone fragments put the age of the structure at around 10,400 B.C.E. Some of the most complete and important Folsom points were found here.
Next, we walked to the edge of the Mesa and I took some photos of the Gunnison Valley, this is one photo:
Currently, students and teaching assistants were excavating the second structure, which appears to be more of a family dwelling with the dwelling being built better and from the tools found, more of a game processing and cooking center. More likely where the main family group lived. This photo you can see Casey giving the lecture while students worked on the site.
I found myself humbled when I was touring this site, the first time I have ever been on an active archaeology site, and really the first time I have been around any human habitation this old. Even though Tenderfoot mountain is higher than the valley below, the local topology results in warmer micro-climate in the winter. During the time these people were here, the area was surrounded with pinon forest, now of course, it is sage-brush. This is site is of major importance in our understanding of this time period in the Gunnison Valley and it made me wonder what other archaeological mysteries are around in Colorado Mountains. Casey mentioned that to totally excavate this site would take over 300 years, so there is so much we can learn. In all, a fascinating trip and one that I will take again in a heart beat.
Further information about this site can be found on
Western's Anthropology website.
Next, we walked to the edge of the Mesa and I took some photos of the Gunnison Valley, this is one photo:
Currently, students and teaching assistants were excavating the second structure, which appears to be more of a family dwelling with the dwelling being built better and from the tools found, more of a game processing and cooking center. More likely where the main family group lived. This photo you can see Casey giving the lecture while students worked on the site.
I found myself humbled when I was touring this site, the first time I have ever been on an active archaeology site, and really the first time I have been around any human habitation this old. Even though Tenderfoot mountain is higher than the valley below, the local topology results in warmer micro-climate in the winter. During the time these people were here, the area was surrounded with pinon forest, now of course, it is sage-brush. This is site is of major importance in our understanding of this time period in the Gunnison Valley and it made me wonder what other archaeological mysteries are around in Colorado Mountains. Casey mentioned that to totally excavate this site would take over 300 years, so there is so much we can learn. In all, a fascinating trip and one that I will take again in a heart beat.
Further information about this site can be found on
Western's Anthropology website.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Movie afternoon/night
Yesterday afternoon I rented three movies, Meet Bill, Vantage Point, and 10,000 B.C., of the three, Meet Bill was the best, followed by 10,000 B.C., and finally Vantage Point. Meet Bill had some good performances, with one my crush objects, Elizabeth Banks, playing the cheating wife to Aaron Eckhart playing the title role. Not a great film but enjoyable. 10,000 B.C. might be a surprise choice given its critical panning in the press, I found the story to be a typical adventure film with poor acting and ridiculous premise but no worse than most fantasy/adventure films. I became increasing frustrated watching Vantage Point because the continuing flash-backs to the same supposed presidential assassination to be hackish and ultimately boring and detracting to the story.
One week from today I'll be driving to the Aikido Summer Camp and I am excited. I am channeling my mother by creating a list of what I need to pack and what chores I need to do before I leave Gunnison.
One week from today I'll be driving to the Aikido Summer Camp and I am excited. I am channeling my mother by creating a list of what I need to pack and what chores I need to do before I leave Gunnison.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Aikido Word Cloud
I came across a cool java applet at Wordle to create the following word-cloud. I took my last blog entry and imported and generated the following. I couldn't find an easy way to embed a graphic, so did the old geek standby and did a screen shot of the word-cloud. Here are the results:
UPDATE: I just didn't do enough steps, if you save the cloud on Wordle, you can then embed the results like this:
UPDATE: I just didn't do enough steps, if you save the cloud on Wordle, you can then embed the results like this:
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Aikido interactions
Some days I encounter Aikido. Today I ran into my friend BT and we made plans to practice Aikido next Monday at 5:00 Escalante Fitness Center. At a business dinner tonight at Garlic Mike's, my boss told the group about my vacation to Glenwood Springs later this month for the Aikido Summer Camp in the Rockies. Jokes about me being sent in first in any disaster made me think about how I view life and being a survivor. Martial Arts, as popularly perceived through mass (films, television, MMA) or narrow (YouTube) is not my memories of budo in the Aikido dojo.
Living Aikido is repetitive practice on the mat. Timing develops and then begins to extend into life outside and off the mat. Hopefully I'll be able to practice at least two times before driving to Colorado Mountain College. I received a final e-mail from Boulder Aikikai with final confirmation information and I'll be able to post to my blog from the Summer Camp. I want to document as much as I can teach and learn Aikido.
I am just beginner in my journey of life and the practice of budo.
Living Aikido is repetitive practice on the mat. Timing develops and then begins to extend into life outside and off the mat. Hopefully I'll be able to practice at least two times before driving to Colorado Mountain College. I received a final e-mail from Boulder Aikikai with final confirmation information and I'll be able to post to my blog from the Summer Camp. I want to document as much as I can teach and learn Aikido.
I am just beginner in my journey of life and the practice of budo.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Mushroom Rainbow Trout
This morning Dad and I drove down our usual spot to fish on the Gunnison river. He caught a nice rainbow that he gave to me. Between the three fish (Dad catching all three although we weren't able to keep the smallest trout from spoiling), I had the opportunity to try my first recipe from my new trout recipe book, "The All Trout Cookbook", by Rick Taylor. I went to City Market and purchased the needed ingredients, substituting fresh shallots for the small onion. Here is a photo of cook a great noon meal with enough left-over trout for an omelet for a dinner later this week.
Instead of cooking the trout on a grill, as called for by the recipe, I heated my gas oven to 350 degrees and prepared the following:
Here is a photo of the my ingredients:
I then stuffed both trout as seen in this staged photo:
Here are the trout,post oven. I covered the fish in aluminum foil and cooked the fish for twenty minutes. After letting the fish cool for a number of minutes and then dined on the mushroom fish with a gin and tonic. Delicious.
Instead of cooking the trout on a grill, as called for by the recipe, I heated my gas oven to 350 degrees and prepared the following:
- 1/2 a cup of chopped shallots
- 1/2 a cup of button mushrooms
- 1/2 a sliced lemon
- 1 can of cream-of-mushroom soup
Here is a photo of the my ingredients:
I then stuffed both trout as seen in this staged photo:
Here are the trout,post oven. I covered the fish in aluminum foil and cooked the fish for twenty minutes. After letting the fish cool for a number of minutes and then dined on the mushroom fish with a gin and tonic. Delicious.
Fishing at Spring Creek Reservoir
Dad drove in Friday night and we got an early start on Saturday. We decided to drive to Taylor Reservoir and fly fish on the Taylor River on the drive up to the lake. Here is the only spot on Taylor River we stopped and fly fished (a confession, I am not a very good fly fisherman) Here are a couple of photos from that stop:
About five or six miles from Almont turn-off there is a fork with the left road towards Spring Creek Reservoir about 15 miles with the right turn (actually the main road) towards Taylor Reservoir. We turned left as I had never been to Spring Creek Reservoir. Spring Creek and the road, which quickly turned from asphalt to bumpy dirt road. We stopped once to fly fish, here is a photo of my SUV and the place where I climbed up from the road for a call of nature.
We drove up to the reservoir, here is a Google Map of the Reservoir, I added three points of interest, the first is where I caught my only fish of the day, the second is the beaver dam and pond, and the third place is where Dad and I finished fishing for the day:
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Here are some photos from our day fishing at Spring Creek Reservoir, in what turned out to be rare gem of Gunnison County.
The first set of photos are the first place we fished. I caught my fish here. The first photo I took facing South-East towards the dam and you can see the spill-way in the middle of the photo. The second photo I took facing North. Spring Creek Reservoir is in the middle of a high mountain valley but the elevation is only 8400 so it isn't too bad. My dad caught a small fish that swallowed the hook so we kept it.
Dad and I decided to continue to explore the lake, so we followed the dirt road along the left side of the lake, we crossed where Spring Creek emptied into the reservoir. We noticed a beaver pond with fish jumping. We drove through a small creek, turned around and drove back to as close as we could get to the visible beaver lodge and pond. Here are a couple of photos of the beaver pond and Dad fishing Spring Creek's miniature river delta. This first photo is facing South, the second photo is Dad walking towards the beaver pond.
I had the idea to clean the two fish before following Dad towards the ponds. Dad and I discussed the night before of making Mushroom Lake Trout for dinner. I took this photo to show visual proof of our catch at that point because about ten seconds after taking this photo and putting my camera back into my shorts (my fish the larger of the two), I was finishing washing out the last of the blood from my rainbow trout when it slipped out of my hands into the fast rushing stream and I lost my trout dinner!
Sick at myself, I threaded my way through the brush and got close enough to the beaver pond to take this photo the pond and the beaver lodge. I tried floating a bobber with salmon eggs, received a good bite, but ended up losing two bobbers and rigs to low brush in the water. The second photo is my Dad, using his new fly pole and rig, walking up Spring Creek.
After not catching any fish, we decided to drive back to the dam and finished off our day fishing. Between my father and I we were visited by a chipmunk. I took a couple of photos and my Dad caught a nice size fish. After seven o'clock, we decided to drive back to Gunnison and order a pizza instead of cooking the fish.
Yesterday is a special day I'll remember.
About five or six miles from Almont turn-off there is a fork with the left road towards Spring Creek Reservoir about 15 miles with the right turn (actually the main road) towards Taylor Reservoir. We turned left as I had never been to Spring Creek Reservoir. Spring Creek and the road, which quickly turned from asphalt to bumpy dirt road. We stopped once to fly fish, here is a photo of my SUV and the place where I climbed up from the road for a call of nature.
We drove up to the reservoir, here is a Google Map of the Reservoir, I added three points of interest, the first is where I caught my only fish of the day, the second is the beaver dam and pond, and the third place is where Dad and I finished fishing for the day:
View Larger Map
Here are some photos from our day fishing at Spring Creek Reservoir, in what turned out to be rare gem of Gunnison County.
The first set of photos are the first place we fished. I caught my fish here. The first photo I took facing South-East towards the dam and you can see the spill-way in the middle of the photo. The second photo I took facing North. Spring Creek Reservoir is in the middle of a high mountain valley but the elevation is only 8400 so it isn't too bad. My dad caught a small fish that swallowed the hook so we kept it.
Dad and I decided to continue to explore the lake, so we followed the dirt road along the left side of the lake, we crossed where Spring Creek emptied into the reservoir. We noticed a beaver pond with fish jumping. We drove through a small creek, turned around and drove back to as close as we could get to the visible beaver lodge and pond. Here are a couple of photos of the beaver pond and Dad fishing Spring Creek's miniature river delta. This first photo is facing South, the second photo is Dad walking towards the beaver pond.
I had the idea to clean the two fish before following Dad towards the ponds. Dad and I discussed the night before of making Mushroom Lake Trout for dinner. I took this photo to show visual proof of our catch at that point because about ten seconds after taking this photo and putting my camera back into my shorts (my fish the larger of the two), I was finishing washing out the last of the blood from my rainbow trout when it slipped out of my hands into the fast rushing stream and I lost my trout dinner!
Sick at myself, I threaded my way through the brush and got close enough to the beaver pond to take this photo the pond and the beaver lodge. I tried floating a bobber with salmon eggs, received a good bite, but ended up losing two bobbers and rigs to low brush in the water. The second photo is my Dad, using his new fly pole and rig, walking up Spring Creek.
After not catching any fish, we decided to drive back to the dam and finished off our day fishing. Between my father and I we were visited by a chipmunk. I took a couple of photos and my Dad caught a nice size fish. After seven o'clock, we decided to drive back to Gunnison and order a pizza instead of cooking the fish.
Yesterday is a special day I'll remember.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Dad visiting (maybe) this weekend
I talked to my dad early this week and depending on the weather, he is planning to drive up to Gunnison on Friday to spend the weekend fishing. I am riding up to Leadville on Friday for a workshop at Colorado Mountain College campus but I should be back in time. I'll post some photographs if and when Dad and I go fishing on Saturday.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Fireworks and fishing
Here are a couple of photos I took Friday night. I took a lot of photos using the "fireworks" setting on my camera. Most of the results were not exactly what I was hoping for, but I was able to grab a couple of more traditional fireworks photos although most look like proof that Gunnison was invaded by UFOs.
Yesterday I drove to Needlecreek Reservoir and while I caught two fish; one was only six inches so I released that small trout back to the lake, the second trout was larger and I was hoping I would finally be able to try out my new trout recipe book, when I got the fish back to the bank, the trout spit out the hook on the lure, and so my hopes for a trout dinner were likewise dashed. I went to a different location on the lake from the last time I was there and I took some different photos hiking out of my fishing spot.
Yesterday I drove to Needlecreek Reservoir and while I caught two fish; one was only six inches so I released that small trout back to the lake, the second trout was larger and I was hoping I would finally be able to try out my new trout recipe book, when I got the fish back to the bank, the trout spit out the hook on the lure, and so my hopes for a trout dinner were likewise dashed. I went to a different location on the lake from the last time I was there and I took some different photos hiking out of my fishing spot.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Hot Air Balloons and Happy 4th of July!
This morning when I got up and went outside, there was an armada of hot air balloons south of town. I grabbed my camera and took a few photos. Here is the best one:
This evening I plan on walking down to Jorgenson Park for the fireworks. I'll take some photos and post them to the blog. Also, tomorrow morning is the Cattlemen Days parade and I'll take some photos of that as well. I am also planning to go fishing at Needlecreek Reservoir or make the trip up to Taylor Reservoir. I checked out Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. I liked this film more than his other work, Anderson is an acquired taste and after slightly gagging on the hipster pretension of some of his other films, The Darjeeling Limited felt more grounded and the scenes surrounding the drowned child was touching. Also, I reflected on my own relationships I have with my own brothers, all four of them, and how comfortable I feel around them after growing up together. As adults, our lives are richer and more fulfilling than when we were growing up in Palisade Colorado.
Happy 4th of July!
This evening I plan on walking down to Jorgenson Park for the fireworks. I'll take some photos and post them to the blog. Also, tomorrow morning is the Cattlemen Days parade and I'll take some photos of that as well. I am also planning to go fishing at Needlecreek Reservoir or make the trip up to Taylor Reservoir. I checked out Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. I liked this film more than his other work, Anderson is an acquired taste and after slightly gagging on the hipster pretension of some of his other films, The Darjeeling Limited felt more grounded and the scenes surrounding the drowned child was touching. Also, I reflected on my own relationships I have with my own brothers, all four of them, and how comfortable I feel around them after growing up together. As adults, our lives are richer and more fulfilling than when we were growing up in Palisade Colorado.
Happy 4th of July!
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