Longmont Street Walker

North of Pike/Lefthand Creek, west of Bowen, south of Nelson Rd. / Ken Pratt Blvd (this is where the two meet), east of Sunset.

Total for today : 22,900 steps and 4:25 time.

FLOOD DAMAGE

This area was affected by the flooding, but mainly on the very south end of today’s area. The walkway by Lefthand Creek showed a lot of damage, but a block away I might not have even noticed anything had happened. I was surprised at how quickly life was getting back to normal.

I did notice a lot of heavy equipment being transported westward on Nelson Road as I walked there around 7:30 am, which I assume was headed toward some flood recovery destination.

I walked across Pike Road and took a few pictures from the Lefthand Park area, which I walked as a neighborhood on August 2. One of the two giant ants that I took a picture of then was uprooted by the flood and deposited on the opposite end of the park… see photo below. Apparently the entire park was under a lot of water.

upended ant

under water a week ago

puddle on Pike

heavy equipment on Nelson

parked off of Pike

still heavy flow in Lefthand

recovering after the flood

Flood Aid

Appropriate bumper sticker (but doesn’t look like it’s newly placed)

BURLINGTON CEMETERY

Located on south Sunset, this has a lot of graves from the late 1800’s. It appears to have few if any plots beyond perhaps the 1930’s.

Burlington Cemetery rootsweb ancestry site

Burlington Cemetery

SCHOOLS IN THE AREA

CDC / Olde Columbine HS

Sunset Middle School

Soccer field shows effects of rains

tile columns at Sunset Middle School

Indian Peaks Elementary

Soccer practice

SVV School District Student Entrance

not sure what Child Find is

BOCES

BUSINESSES IN THE AREA

Colorful car wash

Sherman Village

Back side of Avedon Engineering

Thought I should throw this in for the chess theme

Diagonal Center

Intriguing name & sign

Tiki Tans

Bavarian Bakery

my daughter got her wood flooring here

they put the Q in BBQ (& notice BBQ Sauce Intake Port… lol)

Zoetis (interesting name… not sure what they do…)

Pinetree Peripherals

Journeys

Kansas Avenue Office Park

Mountain Secure Systems

City of Longmont Service Center

City of Longmont storage yard

IRISH STEP DANCING

I’m not Irish, and I can’t dance, but I’ve always liked this..

Irish Step Dancing youtube

Irish Step Dancing

TENNIS TOURNAMENT

There was a tennis tournament going on today; looks like it was for young adults. The poster shows a tournament for older adults the Saturday before. I don’t know if it was held or not, due to the flood. I’m guessing not. It looks like it was a good deal… no cost to enter, and they even supply the racquet if you need it. Can’t beat that. Maybe I should enter one of these, even though I haven’t played for quite a while.