Mallards in a row

Open water! Lions Lake is frozen and these ducks found some open water in the Peanut Pond. Weather was decent yesterday with no wind and warmer temperature so took the bike for a ride around the park.

Wagon wheel

Close up of the wagon wheel that is at Frontier Town in the Park this fall. I like photographing old wooden wheels, old buildings or cabins, old wagons and all stuff old.

Dancing Indian

I have photographed many Indians over the years at the Indian Village during Frontier Days and always enjoy them. Looking at this photo from a couple of years ago, I am amazed that there are no tourists in the back ground. From what I remember, it wasn't the best weather that day.

Transportation

Steam power and peddle power. Not sure old Sadie could still run if put on tracks again. And the yellow bike is great exercise but our weather has turned COLD and she is sitting in the garage. This was taken a  week ago in late November. And in my basket - pine cones that I use for fire starters in the wood stove.

Today it's Dec 2 and the count down is near to the end of my year long challenge and experiment of posting a photo a day. It has gotten harder to take photos in 2016, but I still have lots to draw from my collection.

Breaking the rule with horse tails

These beautiful horses were in the park waiting for their owner to harness them to pull a wagon in the Christmas Parade.  One of the "rules" in photography is don't shoot butt shots, but get the twinkle in the animals eye. Well leave it to a photography judge in a show when he awarded 1st place to a group of geese on a frozen lake all facing away from the photographer and wind.

We had another nice, non wind day and I manage to get more miles on my bike and found these in Frontier Park. This was about 2:30 and the Parade started at 5:30.

 First horse getting his harness and below two of the 4 almost done. Watching the process I realized that it a a very intricate process. There is another cowboy between the 1st and 2nd horse.

Locked in bear

This is a safe bear - he's locked in and oh, he's wooden. Not fond of bears since one rocked my rig, and broke a table in the middle of the night. Here are two views of the gate at the Indian Village in Frontier Park, Cheyenne.

Reflected flowers

Here is my shinny spoon again. This one was taken about a month ago at the park. These reflections are always a challenge to get down on the ground and close enough with the macro lens and keep my image out of it. We are expecting our first snow tomorrow, which has held off for a couple of months!

Rusty hook

Okay, it's not too rusty, just a little bit. This is the hook on the wagon that was posted previously.

Old fashioned pick up truck

How pioneers used to move stuff, like our current pick up trucks, but you needed to provide your own horse power. Here are two other wagons from the same location as the post two days ago.

Wheel from the past

This is a view of the frontier town that is at Lion's Park. The sidewalk in front of the old town store fronts makes a great bike riding path with few walkers and dogs.

Fall leaves in the park

These were taken yesterday afternoon in the park. Those little dots in the lake are geese.

No eagles in the park

Geese have hung out at Lions Park for years and the city tried to discourage them with a special $$$$ dog to chase them away. There were lots yesterday and maybe these were just passing through. We do have geese that winter here though. These geese did not have any fear of me. I walked towards the path to see if they would move towards the lake, and they moved a little, but looked really bored with what I was doing.

I don't get excited when I see these big birds since they are around all the time and nothing special to me. Now eagles, that's different.

They have a slow graceful walk as they passed through the sunlight.

Chocolate run

Oh, what do these kids have to do with chocolate? My craving for chocolate drove me to get on my bike and ride 4 miles to the gas station to buy some and found these rolling balls in the park. Someone was having a 16th birthday party and they had several of these balls. They would bump into each other and they would go rolling, sometime head over feet. The one with the black pants was able to wipe out several.

Odd chair out

Just like life, there is always someone that marches to a different beat. While sitting at the fireworks, I noticed the patterns in the seats across the way. One seat was out of place. On the lower photo, the setting sun was creating a shadow pattern from the posts.

On the bottom one the different sections give different patterns. As a whole they are clean and uniform with the red dividing the sections.

Sunseet peace

This is a bench in the park which is surrounded by trees and shade with the setting sun peaking through.

Rose garden

The roses at the Botanical Gardens Rose Garden ar in full bloom. And through the trees, you can see the construction for the expansion. Below is the water fountain with rose peddles that have blown in, or maybe a child added them.

Looking the other way is another bench and one of the arches.

Frontier Park rodeo and carnival grounds

Another bike ride find. They are building frontier store front replicas store just in side the gate to the carnival and rodeo entrance. These are similar to the ones on the outside of the stands.

Botanical Gardens

Sun hitting the trellis at the Botanical Gardens. This one replaced the original one that was damaged.

Zig Zag Zig Zag

This is the crooked board walk over the wetlands pond in the park.