Denver has a beautiful botanic garden in the center of the city.  We had been there before, in a different season of the year.   We saw so many beautiful flowers and other plants.  Unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to the plant names, but want to let you enjoy their beauty. One of the ponds is surrounded by green trees and shrubs that make it look like it belongs in a mountain valley.   This is such a beautiful collection of blooms. There is also one Chihuly glass creation.  The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix has several of his creations. I love the look of this green  plant. I wonder if this is some kind of coleus. I caught a picture of a bee feasting on pollen in this pretty white rose. These somehow don't look like water lilies.  I wonder what they are. Beautiful red leaves. I wonder what this delicate flower is called. I believe these are some variety of daisy. These are marigolds.  We had them in the back yard when I was growing ...

I grew up in south Denver--only 2 to 3 blocks from the Valley Highway, now known as I-25. Through the years I have lived in and around Denver, as well as in smaller towns, like Boulder, Castle Rock, Oconomowoc, WI, Mesa, AZ, and Gold Canyon, AZ. During our years of RVing, we also lived in places like Cannonville, Utah, and Walsenburg, Colorado and Wamic, Oregon.  I loved RVing and learning about life in small towns.  But I am really a city girl. We are now living in an apartment in Lone Tree, Colorado, on the south side of Denver.  And this is truly city living.  On our morning walk the other day, we saw this concrete pumping activity for a soon-to-be parking garage and apartment house.  Our current zip code is almost entirely filled with apartments buildings.  It is so interesting!   In Wamic, I would wake up and see cows out the bedroom window.  Here our windows open on an interior courtyard, but any time we leave the building, we see peopl...

Both John and I graduated from high school in 1961, John from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock and I from South High School in Denver.  That may be where the similarity ends.  My graduating class had 998 members if I remember rightly, John's had 54. One year before I graduated, the Denver school district added three new high schools to accommodate all the post World War II growth.  At that time there were 1021 students in our class. In1960, 50 of our class were transferred to Washington and 725 to Jeffersone As of 2022, 621 of our class have been located, 205 are missing and 195 known dead. This is a picture of South. In 1986, we had 25-year reunions and in 2011, 50th class reunions.  I don't remember if we attended the 25-year reunions, but we attended both 50th reunions and had a good time at both.  John found another spouse to talk to while I caught up with classmates I remembered and some whose names rang a bell but I didn't remember them. In 1975 J...