Friday, July 30, 2010

Friday Field Trip - Hornbek Homestead

Today, I'm over at author C. Patrick Schulze's blog. He was a guest here not long ago, and he's invited me to his place. I'm talking about "Needlepoint Plotting". Hope you'll pop over there.

Meanwhile, since it's Friday, here at my blog, I've got some pictures to share. Last weekend, we went up to Florissant for their Heritage Days – the pancake breakfast at the firehouse convinced hubster we should give it a go. Across the road, they set up craft booths and had other offerings. Definitely small town, and definitely fun.

We took the back route home, and this time stopped at the Hornbek Homestead, something we'd passed several times before. In honor of the Heritage Days, they had costumed interpreters and were even baking bread in the wood stove. Which smelled scrumptious, I might add.




















If you click to enlarge this last shot and look carefully, you'll see 2 pairs of stilts leaning against the wall of the small outbuilding in back. Hubster noted that he had stilts just like that as a child, and even took a moment to prove he could still walk on them. Bravo!

8 comments:

Mason Canyon said...

Love the field trip. This looks like a fun place to visit. Reminds me of old westerns I use to watch on Saturday mornings. Thanks for sharing.

Mason
Thoughts in Progress

Terry Odell said...

We're finding so many fun places to visit --then again, just driving around the new terrain is still great fun.

Jemi Fraser said...

Beautiful scenery. It's nice coming across places like that when you're travelling. :)

Terry Odell said...

Jemi - even nicer when it's somewhere close to home so if you enjoy it, you can go back.

Carol Kilgore said...

You live in a beautiful area. Enjoy.

Terry Odell said...

Carol: I know and we do.

Annabelle Ambrosio said...

Relaxing looking area. Wish you lots of luck in your new, lovely home.

Terry Odell said...

Thanks, Annabelle-we are enjoying it here. We went walking in the Fossil Beds yesterday after breakfast. I'd NEVER go walking outside in August in Orlando!