Prepped Fiber Can Be Spun on a Spinning Wheel, taken up on a Bobbin Looking directly at the sun through  a telescope, even from the Oz that we call Boulder and call Home, especially during a total solar eclipse can cause blindness. UNLESS you have a custom-made sun-viewing filter. The special filter consists of […]

  The Patterson Inn AboutBoulder has featured 3 most famous and most haunted hotels in Colorado and likely these three are high on the lists of other states also.  We divide ourselves into three categories. Those who believe that some form of ghosts or spirits of the dead exist Those who believe that ghosts are […]

  Frida Kahlo Immersion Mirrors     Photo Lensworth Boulder‘s spectacular location is in itself an art immersion. It puts us right on the the road to special events like the Frida Kahlo immersion exhibit. In a clear example of “derivative art,” this photo captures the artistic eye of the artist as captured by the photographer in […]

                                    Red Ruffed Lemur Boulder‘s near neighbor continues to provide wonderful photo models. The Denver Zoo is an eclectic grouping of cool animals and modern habitats. This highly endangered red ruffed lemur at the zoo is as interested […]

Photo Lensworth         Fern Wall on the  Divide shouting “impending snow.” Boulder’s fern walls and juncos (the bird) are our own Boulder harbingers of snow. Photo Lensworth    Black-eyed Junco, predictor of snow, ground-feeder. The Black-Eyed Junco has a dark top half and a light bottom half. Boulder welcomes them with open […]

Boulder, Colorado, has long been a world-center for computers, hosting the world’s most powerful, fastest computers right down the road from us. NCAR has had a long list, since predicting weather and monitoring climate change requires massive computing power. The most massive on earth much of the time. CHATgpt and Siri and even Alexa are […]

Boulder light, great art light, can be dramatic. Our first pic falls into that category. The dramatic is in contrast to the subtle, which frequently greats ouf visions of clouds and sun. This first sunrise picture is dramatic, not subtle, and in-your-face! The rest of the focus of this article is the more subtle sunset […]

Doesn’t every Boulder dog have their own YouTube channel? Ours does! AboutBoulder is thrilled to share Gibson (Big G) . His you tube channel is TD & Big G’s Colorado Adventures  As we all know, living in Boulder IS an adventure! https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC30vHDm3gT1n4PnBVHZGE6w

Chicago’s famous bridges in the middle of town over the Chicago River Check out the Lionel Trains  “O” gauge on Amazon. The World’s Most Famous Railcar! Passing through the foothills that back Boulder, snaking up in altitude, and offering views of Gross Reservoir that are beyond compare, this journey reveals the less-seen back sides of […]

Boulder is a panacea, an island of sanity and adult behavior. BUT not everyone is willing or able to play well with others. Some of them sadly are thieves. I was able to gift my trainer of the past, a camera. Part of his living was taking pictures, and his camera was stolen from his […]