Victor Colorado antique window shopping

2012 window shopping trip to Victor, CO with view of Pikes Peak from the west . You will have to click on that line and wait awhile to see them. Just ran across these photos from a trip years ago. Maybe some of you can tell me how to get the photos on google turned right side up. I was so delighted to find out recently that these antiques were next to the recent fire and had been saved from burning by the volunteer Fire department efforts to save the building in the same block.

Airbnb stay at the Simpich Home

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Come stay at the Simpich Shady Grove Home
to start considering a stay at our home. We book through Airbnb as they have been great to help us connect with people from around the world.

Come sit on our front porch and enjoy it as our guest near the Creek at the Jim and Rosa Wilson Historic Farmstead. 

Enjoy the beginning of our cottage garden as we work on the original 1914 homestead cottage at the Homestead. 

Meet Potater Willyford said to be the cousin of Tow-mater in the Cars movie. This award winning vehicle created by Ragan 

Po-tater is right at home in the 1914 Wilson Farmstead cottage that we are trying to restore. Corawithcamera(C) 2015-8-29

The porch at the Shady Grove is a swinging place to be. There are a few jeeps for jeep lovers as Ragan rescues them. 

Come get ideas to use on your old stump. This one is about one hundred years old. I have just been hanging everything I could find on it. The raccoons help rearrange it at night. I think they planted the corn that is growing on the backside. Corawithcamera.blogspot.com

This stump is also a bird feeder with English turtle doves, squirrels and raccoons as frequent visitors to watch. Corawithcamera.blogspot.com

Lots of parking space available at our house for you and your guest. There are six acres to roam around and camping is sometimes a possibility. 

Nehemiah is our faithful horse and Sante Fe Joe also a good horse that is hiding behind him. Corawithcamera.blogspot.com

If you are driving up to our house at night this is a good place to park and bring your things right in the front door. 

The bird feeder as seen from the family room with fireplace inside the house. Corawithcamera(C) 2015-8-1

Ragan Simpich, my husband, loves to be talked into taking jeep trips in the Colorado Mountains

Delighted to find Evening Star flowers blooming in the Shady Grove pasture recently. Corawithcamera.blogspot.com 2015 

The kitchen is filled with extra goodies thanks to my guest and my Lord. The flower arrangement was fun way to use the cake stand for awhile. From the internet I learned that if you put a little bit of hydrogen peroxide in plant water it stays fresh.

This hanging plant was made up by adding starts of Coleus to last years basket and topping with a new planter of pansies.  

Sunflowers are growing well from last years seeds. One was about twelve feet high this year. Willys Jeep Station Wagon is one of many being rescued by my husband. 

Just had to share this welcome sign that my grand daughter made for me with correct phonetic spelling in first grade. 

July Jeeping fun near Ouray plus Willy Ford "Po-tater". One hundred four photos and videos of the last week can be seen at the link. Google plus seems to be a much easier upload than getting them on the blog right now. Here are some to get you thinking about checking out the rest. This is near Yankee Boy Basin between Telluride and Ouray, Colorado. The flowers are exceptional this year with lots of moisture and snow still melting. 

Columbine above Yankee Boy Basin near Wright Lake turn off.

Display fun at Porky's parlor! Good barbequed pork also.

Ate at Porky's Parlor today and enjoyed the food and these sights!

Cactus Rose WW II Willys Jeep, Early March 1942, headed to MVP convention Topeka, Kansas

2016-7 For the latest Cactus rose adventures to crystal see the following link:
https://goo.gl/photos/tRJeqpaYBs6XC4sL9

Cactus Rose has some finishing touches added before heading to national Military Vehicle Preservation Convention in Topeka, Kansas.

Cactus Rose winner of the Gold Award at International MVPA
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Cactus Rose WW II Willys Jeep, Early March 1942, headed to MVP convention Topeka, Kansas

For the latest Cactus rose adventures to crystal see the following link:
https://goo.gl/photos/tRJeqpaYBs6XC4sL9

Cactus Rose has some finishing touches added before heading to national Military Vehicle Preservation Convention in Topeka, Kansas.

Cactus Rose winner of the Gold Award at International MVPA
Corawithcamera copyright 2015-8-29