Denver Civic Center Park

I added a page for the Denver Civic Center Park in downtown Denver. I took the pictures on 12/14/2004. It only took slightly more than a year to get them up. Of course, I can't find my notes; So I had a tough time with the titles.

Museum of Western Colorado Tower

This picture is from the observation tower at the Museum of Western Colorado in Grand Junction. The tower is about 5 stories high. The clerk at the museum suggested taking the elevator ... taking the stairs was much nicer.

Unfortunately, it turns out that I am a dufus. I left the battery charger for my new Nikon camera in Salt Lake. I took these photos with my old DC240 camera.

I was surprised to learn that few Grand Junction locals visit the museum. I would thought locals would be walking up and down the stairs for a quick stretch of the legs. In Salt Lake, you will often find people walking up the steps of the library during their lunch breaks.

Cisco, Utah

Here are some pictures of charming Cisco, Utah. Cisco is just south of I70 about 50 west of Grand Junction.

Dead Dry

Sarah Andrew's new work Dead Dry is a delightful read. This continuation of the Em Hansen murder mystery series finds our forensic geologist looking into the politics of suburban sprawl. A corpse at the Point of the Mountain in the Salt Lake Valley winds its way back to the suburban sprawl taking over Castle Rock, Colorado.

It is a well written mystery that explores the human side of the water crisis facing the west. The politics of sprawl is extremely ugly. Real Estate development is the primary industry in much of Utah and Colorado. What this economy is wanting to do is to expand until we exhaust our resources and the economy implodes. It is still the same boom and bust mantality that dotted the west with ghost towns a hundred years ago ... except the ruins from this generation will be a toxic wasteland ... and not the quaint tourist destinations of old ghost towns.

Anyhow, the new Em Hansen mystery is a great read.