Durango, Colorado

Can you believe it is almost Thanksgiving? Today is the first day it has even been cold here and I just started a nice big fire in the wood stove.

Here are some photos of Durango, CO from our visit last month.

We arrived to a band and lots of festive folks for Oktoberfest.



There were the usual arts and crafts kind of booths.



The weather was gorgeous and the trees were turning.







Here's DH (left) and our friend Brad in front of Olde Tymers where we had lunch. Unfortunately they were out of their delicious raspberry beer.

I'm going through most of my really old knitting photos to make sure they've all been posted on Ravelry even though the photos are not so great. I started with my mittens and next it will be hats. I learned my lesson when my computer died last month and I'm trying to do a good job of saving my photos. A kind friend grabbed all my photos off my hard disk for me and he is now teasing me for having 20,000 photos of nothing but bunnies and gloves.

Durango

Here are some photos of Durango Colorado in the San Juan mountains taken last weekend. Unfortunately DH had the flash on the entire time he took these photos!

We lived in Durango for 15 years prior to coming to NM so DH could get his Ph.D. After he was finished with school the housing prices in Durango had become so insanely high (and still are) that we realized we could not go back even though DH was offered a job there. At the time that was really hard as all our friends are there but after this latest trip I realize it was a blessing in disguise. I think we need to live somewhere larger. Fortunately we're still close enough to visit.



This photo was taken from Fort Lewis College near the softball fields.



Here is the Animas River which runs through town.



The General Palmer hotel on the right in downtown Durango.

Next week I will have some colorwork alpaca fingerless mitts to show you.