Deer, mushrooms,restaurants, and history

Running as fast as we can to enjoy every little minute left of summer. It's going so quickly!

on my walk

our salt lick inside the fence

Deer everywhere and the fawns are growing up. Still with all their spots though. Another month or so and they'll look like mama. Of course then they all turn gray and the trees all turn yellow, orange, and red. Nature at its best.

On a whim went to dinner at Garlic Mikes in Gunnison. First time in almost two years! We've had erratic food and service so wasn't sure what to expect. Pleasantly surprised - good food and service. We'll be back. And amazingly, a week ago the Travel Channel came by to film the restaurant. Seems to be a garlic theme in the show somewhere, but not sure. It's airing sometime in the fall. Our waiter said a little extra alcohol went around to calm down the nervous, soon to be filmed, customers. Ah, fleeting fame...

Puffball (at least I think it is) huge actually 7 inches across

So its mushroom month again, and seeing them on the woods walk popping up all over. My problem is I've been scarred after purchasing a mushrooms in Colorado book the first summer the house was finished.There are wonderful edible varieties here, but also lots of copy cat poisonous ones. The only way I see eating any are from this scenario: local mushroom expert accompanies me and picks them, then he/she prepares them, and finally he/she takes a bite first. It is a thing around here, we met an eastern European gentleman with his basket and a few dogs on our way down from the fen hike. He said he'd been told to come to that very area for good mushroom hunting. Good luck, we said. I saw very few mushrooms on our way up, but maybe I don't have the eye for it.

Decided to try out new restaurants in CB and return to some that were not so great in the past, just to see.
So first up is West End. Only been in business a year, they were Timberline prior for a very long time (claim to fame: infamous plastic surgery Heidi Montag's parents, believe no connection now.) Had barbecue (they smoke their own), and it was pretty good. We'll go back, so success #1.

Reading a book on Gunnison Cty cemeteries, which is fascinating. One of the original cemeteries was under the airport. (All graves were moved to the current cemetery) All the old West folklore, sad results of epidemics, mining accidents -huge history in those.We have at Star Mountain, a one person cemetery. Joe "Peanuts" Berta, which is in the book. He was the last miner at Baldwin, and wished to be buried at the place he loved the most. Sweet.

And what is this you ask?  Yup, we are finally going camping. Tonight., Trying out all the new, or should I say, unused and in original condition, since we bought it all last year, equipment. Should be fun!