Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Just before the big thunder storm.





First use of the season, which was brief due to a huge thunderstorm coming in.

OId bikes

BMW motorcycle, with sidear, at Jax's in Ft. Collins, Colorado.  According to the salesman, it was made in 1939.  Iphone photos.




Friday, August 9, 2013

The Wind Storm







Tremendous August 8, 2013 wind storm, with thunderstorm that caused the local warning system to be activated.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Horse Trailer


An example of what they once looked like, although this ones been in a pretty bad wreck.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

An Albany County High Country Homestead

 Note the horses in the abandoned barn.




This homestead is clearly a 20th Century homestead, and quite near the one pictured in the thread immediately below.  It has a surprising number of outbuildings so the ranch that was headquartered here must have employed some cowboys in addition to the employing the rancher and his family.

Both of the homestead pictured in these two thread are quite high altitude, and were probably late homesteads.

A 1910 Homestead


A high country homestead in the Laramie Range, in Albany County.  A  sign indicates that the homestead was filed in 1910, which would explain the high altitude nature of the homestead.  This one must have been occupied until fairly recently, nad might still be during part of the year given the modern plate steel sign.  At least one of the outbuildings appears to probably date from at least as recently as the 1950s.

Northern Albany County and Southern Converse County.







Summer Skies




Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The B-17G Nine O Nine





















The Collins Foundation B-17G Nine O Nine.  This plane isn't the original Nine O Nine, but a B-17G painted to match the original Nine O Nine's colors.