Needless to say, my pictures today were almost all plants. It was another overcast day so the sky is washed out in any pictures which include it.
Amazing artwork complimenting the plantings. Metal leaves are wired onto the three poles. They spin around the poles and flutter individually like leaves on aspens. They're shiny-copper on one side and matte-purple on the other. Fascinating to watch in the wind.
Rock garden with colorful rocks from northern Colorado's Dakota Rock Formation
Hens-and-Chicks sedum with flower stalk
Silver Cholla cactus. Not something we expected to find in this climate.
Red fountain grass with giant praying mantis
Vibrant purple kale
Okra
Nasturtiums
Red sunflower
Sunflowers with bees
Ornamental grasses and sedums
"The Messenger" by Joellen Domenico
Grasses and a variety of fall flowers
By the time we left the gardens we were in dire need of lunch. Via TripAdvisor I'd found an Afghan restaurant I'd been looking forward to trying since June. The food was excellent and we ate entirely too much. I was delighted to find they had the wonderful Middle Eastern yogurt drink I loved in Iran in the mid-1950's. The Afghan version of it was extraordinary.
After lunch we waddled over to Home Depot for hardware to get the TV properly installed. Jim was successful in his efforts because he'd had the foresight to get a couple of packets of washers. It took all ten washers to get the brackets to where they wouldn't tip the TV forward. It's now up and working and, hopefully, won't come off the wall when we move the RV. We really don't want to arrive at our next stop and find the TV in the cats' litter box.
Last picture of the day is of the Big Thompson River which runs by the campground. We can't see it from our site but there's a path to walk down to it. It looks like such a calm and innocent little river right now but three years ago it tore up the cabbage patch.
Haven't figured out yet what we're doing tomorrow. It will be a surprise.
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