Thursday, August 12, 2010

Why just put a roof on a building?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are a lot of really neat old buildings in historic downtown Salida, Colorado.

When we walked around after dinner the other night, the low sun really showed off the rooflines of these wonderful structures to best advantage and I couldn't help snapping some photos.

The pottery shop I visited a few days ago is on the ground floor of the building at the left here

Quite a few of the buildings have dates, like this one, from the late 1800's:


Here are some more well-restored beauties:




I couldn't help noticing, as well, the fantastic sunset clouds above these handsome rooflines:

For fellow cloud aficianados, here's a final photo where the clouds, rather than the architecture, are the stars of the show:

In spite of the ominous look there, we only got dripped on a bit as we completed our after-dinner walk.



There will be a blog hiatus for the next few days as we start our river trip with a campout (sans internet connection) Thursday night. I hope to get lots and lots of good pictures on the cruise, and some good (but not too exciting) stories that I will share with you upon our return to civilization.

1 comment:

TBM said...

What beautiful buildings! I can see why you love it there. Hope you're having good weather for your trip down the river :-)