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In Rocky Mtn Natl Park. About 7000 feet high at the end of a steep, demanding trail. Reward enough.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-28-13-34-50.jpg2015-08-28 13.34.50Heading out of town for a brief escape into the Rockies.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-44-02.jpg2015-08-27 16.44.02https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-33-37.jpg2015-08-27 16.33.37And some roads aren't even blacktop as they head toward that great mountain barrier.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-18-33.jpg2015-08-27 16.18.33A shut down suger mill. TheBoulder area teems with huge, low lying, high tech factories, the new crop that this vast land supports.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-15-07.jpg2015-08-27 16.15.07https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-13-59-copy.jpg2015-08-27 16.13.59 - CopyA definite beauty surrounds this place. It's not all malls and tourists and shopping centers, and not only a major university at all.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-16-10-43.jpg2015-08-27 16.10.43Lest we forget. Boulder is the western terminus of the great plains that begin back at the Mississippi River.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-27-06-36-14.jpg2015-08-27 06.36.142015-09-01T15:40:35+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/16/592/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-19-20-06.jpg2015-08-15 19.20.06Tomorrow it's on to Silverton.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-18-55-55.jpg2015-08-15 18.55.55They set up right by the ole time train station and kicked up some lively tunes.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-18-49-10.jpg2015-08-15 18.49.10Boots are the thing to wear. I had shoes and they were getting worn.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-18-18-06.jpg2015-08-15 18.18.06Very tasy. Chatted with couple next to me. He was trying to get back with his ex-wife, worried about his daughter who graduated and was living at home, lost, and changes to Durango. He was with a woman. His ex-wife. She started to read a book as he continued talking with me.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-17-22-21.jpg2015-08-15 17.22.21i didn't even wear these for my hikes but it's off the grid and the freeway and there's a lot of dust out there.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-17-20-59.jpg2015-08-15 17.20.59One of two grand ole hotels in Durango.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-14-56-28.jpg2015-08-15 14.56.28Some dwelliings were 3 stories with kivas too.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-14-45-57-2.jpg2015-08-15 14.45.57-2Tucked below the top of the mesa and still in good condition.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-13-19-56-2.jpg2015-08-15 13.19.56-2Not too impressive looking. In Cortez, CO but the food was excellent.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-15-11-16-14-2.jpg2015-08-15 11.16.14-22015-08-30T16:52:10+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/17/boulder-bound-day-6/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-15-42-26.jpg2015-08-16 15.42.26Not a cell phone but it strikes me that the 19th C had its own amazing technologies, more on a macro than a micro scale.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-16-24-16.jpg2015-08-16 16.24.16https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-16-23-00.jpg2015-08-16 16.23.00https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-16-15-22.jpg2015-08-16 16.15.22These fellows were heading my way, but it looked a little bouncy up there so I aimed my car toward Boulder one more time.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-15-53-24.jpg2015-08-16 15.53.24My first camera was a belows model like this one. 8 or 12 shots to a roll.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-15-48-08.jpg2015-08-16 15.48.08The dynamite makers on the boxes, Atlast and Dupont, are where my uncle worked, in Delaware, but he did accounting not dynamiting.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-15-36-40.jpg2015-08-16 15.36.40There's a museum too.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-14-31-43.jpg2015-08-16 14.31.43Mike is our guide for a silver mine tour. He says, Hundreds of gallons of water flow out of here every minute and I ask if it's clean. Are you from the EPA he asks? If you are there'll be one less person going back up, and I say, That's the last place I'd want to work. I thnk he believes me because I make it back up.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-14-01-37.jpg2015-08-16 14.01.37Miners loved their chess games, when they weren't doing 12 hours in the mine or drifting into the saloons for an after dinner beverage.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-16-13-31-25.jpg2015-08-16 13.31.25My hotel for the night, on main street.2015-08-30T16:50:59+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/19/661/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dawn.jpgDawnBeyond the motel window dawn breaks on the final day.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-10-16-07.jpg2015-08-19 10.16.07My car emerges, clean. And what I write and what I see diverge most strikingly in this final post from the road.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-10-13-50.jpg2015-08-19 10.13.50https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-10-13-09.jpg2015-08-19 10.13.09A pamphlet in the car wash waiting area. A shock. And reminder of what our settled ways produce as suffering and loss, along with the dramatics of helping those who lose their way.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-10-09-04.jpg2015-08-19 10.09.04Near my new residence. Wash, clean up, cleanse.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-10-09-44.jpg2015-08-19 10.09.44I take my car to a car wash to clear away the residue of the long road taken.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-19-09-26-53.jpg2015-08-19 09.26.53https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-18-16-56-05.jpg2015-08-18 16.56.05The Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder: numbers galore. Small testimony to the tension between the one and the many.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-18-16-55-16.jpg2015-08-18 16.55.16https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-18-15-59-02.jpg2015-08-18 15.59.02Entering Boulder, street lights and other amenities. The mountains just beyond.2015-08-19T23:26:37+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/18/boulder-bound-day-7-prices-we-pay/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-17-18-09-351.jpg2015-08-17 18.09.35Downtown fronts a river at the foot of the surrounding hills. I ate outside in the cooling mountain air.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-17-13-44-551.jpg2015-08-17 13.44.55But outside town the desert and the mountain hillsides have given way to pastures in this high valley.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-17-10-20-35.jpg2015-08-17 10.20.35Mining despoiled the landscape but gave a growing nation the raw materials it needed. Now it seems to be the chain stores, strip malls, and big box guys that do the despoiling, giving us the products we want, but always at a price. I rediscover this part of our culture--absent since Yosemite--in Montrose, a mountain town that both mining and tourism have abandoned.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-17-09-24-09.jpg2015-08-17 09.24.09Ingenuity knows no limits. If you can't stop the slide, you can tell it where to go.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-17-11-11-29.jpg2015-08-17 11.11.29Roads still seem to disappear into impossible barriers.2015-08-18T14:17:50+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/15/boulder-bound-day-4-searching-for-john-ford/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-16-12-53.jpg2015-08-14 16.12.53https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-18-29-28.jpg2015-08-14 18.29.28https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-18-36-49.jpg2015-08-14 18.36.49See the "W"? Not the hotel chain, or that President, but it's one of the more impressive monuments.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-17-04-38.jpg2015-08-14 17.04.38A female hogan where we (all 3 of us on the tour) saw a demonstration of weaving and I chatted with Robert, our Navajo guide, who says the young people flee and no one builds hogans from logs anymore.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-16-19-32.jpg2015-08-14 16.19.32Saddles and monuments at one of our stops where we could also buy Navajo crafts.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-16-08-37.jpg2015-08-14 16.08.37Note promnent profile on the right. Do you see him? Not John Ford. Alfred Hitchcock. Still looking for Ford.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-14-45-11.jpg2015-08-14 14.45.11I'll be your guide today.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-15-34-18.jpg2015-08-14 15.34.18There it is! Not the trailer but the first sight of Monument Valley.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-13-54-21.jpg2015-08-14 13.54.21Even deserts have their gas.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-14-12-13-26.jpg2015-08-14 12.13.26The churches of Page line the main front one after another like fast food chains, competing for customers.2015-08-15T19:32:40+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/13/boulder-bound-day-2-chasing-mountains/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-14-00-53.jpg2015-08-12 14.00.53They used to say the west was lawless, not it seems the law has come and gone.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/zion-view.jpgZion viewFrom my balcony at entrance to the park. tomorrow: into Zion National Park, on foot.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-14-31-421.jpg2015-08-12 14.31.42https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-14-31-42.jpg2015-08-12 14.31.42https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-12-21-48.jpg2015-08-12 12.21.48Found on the side of a nut shop, at another junction of back roads: no gas, no cafe, but lots of nuts.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-12-17-53.jpg2015-08-12 12.17.53I asked if he wanted to play tennis, but he said he was booked up.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-10-23-56.jpg2015-08-12 10.23.56Heroism in the high deserthttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-10-22-10.jpg2015-08-12 10.22.10Nevada's small town lifehttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-10-48-22.jpg2015-08-12 10.48.22The distant hillshttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-08-12-09-46-37.jpg2015-08-12 09.46.37Just the great long road2015-08-13T23:14:14+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/13/boulder-bound-day-1/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/boulder-trip-day-1-051.jpgBoulder Trip Day 1 051Boy meets Girl, sort ofhttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/boulder-trip-day-1-032.jpgBoulder Trip Day 1 032It Ain't San Franciscohttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/boulder-trip-day-1-018.jpgBoulder Trip Day 1 018https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/boulder-trip-day-1-004.jpgBoulder Trip Day 1 004On the Road2015-08-13T02:45:29+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/08/11/coit-tower-and-its-murals/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/workers-of-the-world.jpgWorkers of the Worldhttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/tale-of-two-families.jpgTale of Two Familieshttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/on-the-dock.jpgOn the Dockhttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/news-dreary-news-in-hard-times.jpgNews, Dreary News in Hard Timeshttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/death-comes-as-it-must-to-all.jpgDeath Comes, as it must to allhttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/communism-and-the-people.jpgCommunism and the Peoplehttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/boys-and-their-books-away-from-the-newspapers.jpgBoys and Their Books, away from the newspapershttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/bankers-and-cowboys.jpgBankers and Cowboys2015-08-11T15:12:47+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/07/14/squaw-valley-community-of-writers/2015-07-14T17:25:01+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/05/19/mad-men-going-going/2015-05-19T23:49:27+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2012/08/08/hello-world/2015-04-29T17:28:06+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/04/24/steve-jobs-the-man-in-the-machine/2015-04-25T20:07:48+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/03/05/letters-to-afar-peter-forgacs-new-installation/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-opening.jpgThe Openinghttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/a-forgacs-triptych-with-3-viewers.jpga Forgacs triptych with 3 viewers2015-03-05T04:08:24+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/02/23/oscars-lost-lost-lost/2015-02-25T05:27:56+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/01/06/alcatraz-and-ai-weiwei-the-scene-of-the-crime/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/alcatrax-toilets-through-window.jpgAlcatrax toilets through windowAlcatraz: Nowhere To Gohttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-04-13-05-25.jpg2015-01-04 13.05.25Alcatraz with Angel Island in the background.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/lego-manning-image.jpgLego Manning imageChelsea as she might be seen today were she not in prison for helping expose the secret acts of our government's war on civil liberties and privacy in the name of a war that seems to perpetuate the very thing it seeks to eliminate: terrorism.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/lego-prisoners.jpgLego prisonersOne of the large arrays of images in the work space. There are five such arrays in all.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/dragon-head.jpgdragon headThe dragon's head wlecomes us to the former prisoners' "work" area.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/alcatraz-sign-against-wall.jpgAlcatraz sign against wallDiscarded, but a black and white reminder of just how stark this place can be.2015-01-06T16:53:11+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2015/01/02/a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night/2015-01-02T18:05:24+00:00monthlyhttps://billnichols.net/2014/12/10/keith-haring-at-the-de-young/https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/monster-eats-man.jpgTV MonsterThe TV monster and the helpless man. The injunction to Kill your Television has come too late. Haring's figures are captives and victims of forces they may have created but no longer control.https://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/man-in-the-middle.jpgMan in the middlehttps://billnichols.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/impaled.jpgimpaledSome images are dense with iconic doodles and some have the starkness of a Philip Guston anti-KKK painting or Guernica. 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