Durango visit April 10

 

The La Plata Mountains

Our first stop was the gallery, "Studio & Gallery"  - a co-op of different artists from the area.

Kendra and I liked this art book, with an interesting new story line. I wanted to buy it for her, but missed my chance. Don't go away (I now say to myself) and think you'll go back to get it! I left the money for it with  my son, and hope he has a chance to purchase it for me, since he works in Durango sometimes. Most of his work is from home these days.

Kendra (daughter-in-law) window shopping. But ahead is one of our destinations in Durango, the Artisan Ice Cream Shop with their own concoctions. I had Belgium Chocolate, while my son had Espresso ice cream in espresso coffee. Kendra had the Belgium Chocolate and something pink. (see below)

I kept our table while they did the orders, and I spied an old sign, the La Plata Jewelry store.

Durango had lots of shops, but my breathing was limited, so not much strolling that day. It's about 6300 feet above sea level and I had had pneumonia 2 weeks before. So most of my tourism was by car.

The Strater Hotel is from the early days of this mining town.

There were many beautiful old houses to be seen as well.

I was curious about this very grey ridge, with no vegetation on it's sides. Tai has gone mountain biking on part of it and he said it's all shale...very slippery to bike on.

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Today's quote:

Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you..

..when you start imprinting your intent on the Universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.

~Barbara Marciniak

Day trip to Southern Ute Museum

 

Leaving Cortez with the La Plata Mountains in front of us.

I enjoyed seeing the early spring trees with mostly yellow tones.

On the right, you see three cottonwoods But I’m not sure what the yellow ones are.

The Sky Ute Casino

Museum building back side

Entrance courtyard to museum

The arbor framework finishes the circular entrance court area, much as it would at many indigenous tribes’ pow-wow ceremonies.

 

Central to the indoor lobby is this totem.

Once we entered the actual museum displays we saw this teepee.

When you sit on the logs a few recorded voices give details about it. This was the technique used throughout the museum.

I enjoyed seeing the construction with all these huge wood columns.

I liked this woman’s dress with cowrie shell decorations but was a bit dismayed to see some plastic beads strung at the hemline. These larger beads didn’t look like glass to me - but I could be wrong.

I had used up my energy by then so missed much of the displays about the Utes after Western Europeans arrived in the area.

Today’s quote:

Your very own inner wisdom should be valued more than any other and will always guide you in the direction you need to travel.