Reservoir Road Fire, One Week Later

One week later, the Reservoir Road fire north of Carter Lake is out, but entrance back to the area is still guarded. In the background, see you can see some of the burn area and also some reddish stripes of the dropped slurry. This picture is from the intersection of Larimer County Roads 31 and 18E, looking west:

Flatiron Reservoir Fire near Loveland

Yuck, another fire in the foothills, this time NW of Longmont up in Larimer County near Flatiron Reservoir.

Both pictures from Longmont, the second one from near Silver Creek HS:

Masonville Colorado, revisited

More Masonville, as suggested by one of my favorite readers of this lil' old blog. Masonville was founded in the early 1890's as part of a gold rush that never amounted to anything.

Masonville Mercantile is the "general store" of the area and has been around since those gold fever days. Open on Friday and weekends, and its got a totem pole outside.



Buckhorn Presbyterian Church, founded in 1909, completed in 1911. A short history can be found here (PDF).


The Post Office. Some have called Masonville a ghost town but that can't be, because it has a live functioning Post Office!


Alpaca young'uns with Mom, just northwest of town:

Masonville Colorado

Carter Lake

Horsetooth Mailbox Art

Mailbox sculpture, as seen today in the Horsetooth area of Larimer County:


Other mailbox art:

• Near Union Reservoir
  
  
• Near Rinn, Colorado
  

High Plains Rider

A striking sculpture located on ranch property in the Larimer County foothills:

Carter Lake