A Herd of Buffalo

Denver has one of the more successful Urban Malls, shown here along 16th Street.  It is also apparently home to a herd of Urban Buffalo.........

 

Final Taste of Colorado

View of the Civic Center Park

 

Long view of the Denver City County Building.

Colorado has several ways in which a town can be incorporated.  It gets pretty complicated,  but one type is the City-County.  Denver is both a City and a County and has some kind of combined governing structure.  Since I don't live there I haven't bothered to delve into the details, but there is a Wikipedia entry on Colorado City Charters.

More From A Taste of Colorado

Of Course food tasting is the objective.  But we decided to take a pass on Famous Dave's Chocolate covered Bacon.

I was told that their BBQ is very good though.

More Warm Summer Thoughts

It snowed a bit today.  Just a dusting and nothing to photograph.  So let's continue with more warm summer thoughts.  There will be plenty of opportunities to revist winter between now and the end of March.

The Taste of Colorado, held at the Civic Center in downtown Denver, is the big end of summer festival:

The Civic Center is a Prak and Colonade area between the State Capitol Building and the Denver City-County Building.  Here a veiew across the park towards the Capitol.

 

And a closer view of the Denver City-County Building.

These Photos were taken with a Lomo Plastic Fisheye Camera.  There is a whole world of Plastic camera Fanaticism out there.  Just search on Lomography and see what you find.

Mainstreet Lafayette: Along Public Road

Continuing the theme these next few days of getting to know our hometown:  A view down our main street: Public Road.  We are standing on the east side of the street looking north.  Local lore says that the original owner of the land, Mary Miller, would not allow any alcohol or drinking east of Public Road; strictly temperance.  The town is named for her husband Lafayette Miller.  He got the name, but she owned the land, and several coal mines.  We will delve into the coal mining history of the area later.