It's been crazy-busy around here since returning from my river trip in Montana a couple of days ago. On top of having to clean up all my gear and get it stored in various places around the area, there were also a couple of friends who popped in from out of state that needed to be visited with.

   So my photo sorting has taken a real back seat to everything else as a result. Did manage to get them all down loaded off of the camera at least. Close to 900 in all, so now it is down to sorting those out and cutting it all down to a more manageable size without losing too much continuity. Got some of that done this morning and afternoon, but it is rather wearing after a while. So I think it is time to go out and enjoy some of the day outdoors instead.

     As I mentioned, several friends have been visiting the state over the past couple of weeks. One from the DC area, Terri, was also visiting a mutual friend who lives in Estes Park, so I managed to make it all the way up there a couple of days ago and meet them for dinner in town. Lots of good conversation of course, much of it revolving around our mutual interest in Contra dancing and music. It is however a long, long drive back to south Denver afterwards. But at least this time there were no deer or elk trying to jump out in front of my truck on the way home that night.

    Also had another friend from Virginia, Jean, in the area for a couple of days visiting some of her relatives here. We finally got together last night for a quick meal at El Tejado and then drove on up to Boulder together for the contra dance last night. Really fun and interesting music for the dance this time. Put on by a new band to me, the 'Hot and Saur Band' staring Rodney, Nancy and Molly Saur along with a friend of theirs sitting in on fiddle, they did lots of traditional sounding stuff of course but also some new stuff as well as new arrangements of some of the old. It was all topped off by the last dance where we were all dancing to the song 'Bare Necessities' from the Disney movie 'The Jungle Book'. Fun!

   Had been planning on driving up to Fort Collins this evening to go to their Saturday night dance. But I took my friends Tom and Donna out for an anniversary celebration, 27 yrs, this afternoon and after sharing a pitcher of margaritas I came home and promptly feel asleep on the bed. Oh well! Guess I need to get back to sorting and cropping pictures again. It is going to be a long process, but it is still fun to go back through them all and remember how much fun we were all having at the time.