Where else will you find a 40-foot blue bear peering into your work space? Denver, of course.
This sculpture, outside the Colorado Convention Center, was created by Lawrence Argent and is entitled "I See What You Mean." We spent a couple of days in Denver where Pam took some advanced cooking classes.
En route, we spent a night with Jaye and Mark near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Many moons ago, Mark and I were roommates in the Sigma Nu house on UND's campus. They retired after running some profitable businesses in Chicago, their home town. Now they tend horses and a donkey on a nice spread southwest of Cheyenne. Mark still works, matching up franchisees with franchises, but does it all with a phone and a computer. It was great fun reminiscing about college days though I must confess that Mark's memory is much better than mine.
Near a bookstore we visited, this store window display beckoned to who I don't know. I'm no prude but this was enough to make me gag.
Pam and head chef/instructor Dale Eiden pose in front of the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking. Pam spoke glowingly of the classes she took and the instructors.
While I was waiting for Pam to finish an evening class, I drove by the State Capitol and saw many people gathered on the grounds so decided to take a closer look. This was during the time when Cindy Sheehan was camped outside Bush's home near Crawford, Texas. People around the country were holding protests synchronized with one at Camp Casey.
I would estimate 250-350 people sang songs and listened to speeches.
There were several veterans present. I do not know if this prosthesis resulted from combat.
When the rally was over, I had time for a beer in a pub across the street from the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking. While I was sipping a brew, I noticed that another nightclub a stone's throw away was featuring blues artists. That night, as good fortune would have it, Tinsley Ellis was performing. Pam, the Klines, and I saw Tinsley perform at the Buckhorn Bar in Mandan a few years ago as he was making a swing through North Dakota on his way to the west coast.
The man can make a guitar sing.
And he gets into his music.