Yet Another Fire

I took the bus into work today, and when we crossed over 36, I (and everyone else on the bus) noticed the plume from a nearby fire. It's known as the Dome Fire, and fortunately hasn't burned down any structures yet.

It was windy this morning, which I'm sure helped the fire spread quickly.



By the afternoon, it was harder to see the plume from work. By evening, the fire looked pretty tame.


It looks like it will be windy again Saturday night. Hopefully, the fire crews will have contained it by then.

A full weekend

I kicked off the weekend Friday night with a sushi party at Nick's place. Cora took these pictures of

me in action:


Anne cutting a sushi roll:


Sara making tempeh:


and Nick preparing rice:


Thanks to some good pointers from Nick, I made some pretty nice looking sushi! The rolls in the center and upper left part of the plate were my creation:


Saturday morning, I met Rich and Sara at Bittersweet for our usual Saturday morning coffee.


After coffee, we checked out the grand opening of a new store in downtown Louisville, Altan Alma. They are a small little market, and we ate a free lunch as part of the festivities.


Saturday's sunset:


Sunday night, Sara, Joe, and I went to the Mountain Sun to see Josh's band, Liebermonster, play.

Morning

I woke up really early this morning and started thinking about the Phillies and work. After several failed attempts to go back to sleep, I gave up and went to work. Fortunately, I arrived just as the sun had risen, so I took some pictures.

Flatirons:


I really like that tree turning red. Too bad the power lines are in front of it.

Sun behind the trunk of the center tree:


Nice picnic area on the south side of the building:

Trivia

We had the full team together for the first time in weeks. We came in third.


Cora also won the internet question prize!


Thanks Geeks Who Drink for the photos!

Fall is here

Since we didn't place last week in trivia, I didn't do my usual trivia update blog. So now I have two weeks worth of pictures to get caught up on! I'll choose an autumn theme, although it still feels like summer hasn't quite gone away most days.

I'll start with the holiday weekend (Columbus Day). I had coffee


at an unusual place. It was a store that specialized in both coffee and bicycles!


One night last week got a little cold, and there was frost the next morning on Bear Peak:


On Saturday, it was perfect weather yet again at the Farmers' Market (the last one of the year, unfortunately). I ate and read a little before Sara and Rich joined me.


Afterward, we swung by the grand re-opening of the Louisville Fire Station.




On my walk back home, I realized that the ladder truck could probably reach the top floor of any building in Louisville.


Before I got home, I took this picture of the fall colors surrounding a bike path.


Sunday, I went with Rich and Sara on a hike to Royal Arch. We started at Chautauqua Park.


We passed under the third Flatiron, where I took a picture of some climbers.


The air was clean, so the views were good from Royal Arch. South Boulder Road heading to Louisville:


The third Flatiron:



Beneath Royal Arch:


On the way back, we saw a black squirrel, which looked almost like a rabbit, it had so much hair on its ears.


We made it back to the car just as the clouds were rolling in.


Today it was cool, but the next few days should be sunny!

UPDATE: Here are a couple of pictures of Sara and me that Rich took.

More Stuff

This past Tuesday, we came in second place in trivia. Not bad for being shorthanded again!


Watching this video brought back some memories (like awe and disbelief) of the hail storm at New Mexico Tech.

Speaking of videos, here is one from Schilthorn: