North of Nelson Road, west of Airport Road, south of St. Vrain Road (9th Avenue) , east of 75th Street.
Total for today: 20,610 steps and 3:41 time.
This was a whole lot of open area, agricultural area, airport area today. I actually walked very few ‘streets’. Vance Brand Airport takes up a lot of this area, as well as the Seagate and Amgen industrial campuses. The city of Longmont and Boulder County have some facilities here as well. (BTW, I never knew that Amgen stood for Applied Molecular GENetics… did you?)
VANCE BRAND AIRPORT
I’ve never been to the airport before, and am not very familiar with the whole airplane culture, so it was interesting for me to see this on my walk. That’s why I’ve put in that many pictures for the airport.
Vance Brand is Longmont’s ‘native son’… with an airport and school auditorium named after him. When I walked Rogers Road immediately south of the airport, there were a hundred or more shoes on fence posts there. Not sure what inspired that…
Vance Brand wikipedia
Vance Brand Airport
Snack time at the airport
Going up from birds to rockets
da plane! da plane!
wind sock (and old grinding wheel?)
I guess I’m not sure exactly what airplanes use for fuel. Apparently more expensive than car fuel…
tower at the airport
one plane
many planes
plane storage
shoes on the fence # 1
a long row of shoes on the fence
Seagate wikipedia
Seagate (main entrance?)
Disc Drive (StorageTek used to have a Tape Drive as well)
Seagate from the back
As I walked on Nelson Road between Seagate and Amgen, I noticed the very nice house and barn east of Silver Creek High School are now completely gone (see my June 16 blog for pictures and a link to a story in the Times-Call about it).
By the way, the traffic going west-bound here on Nelson Road at 8am was VERY heavy… almost a constant stream of cars!
Amgen wikipedia
Amgen
Amgen tank
power station by Amgen
Amgen loading docks… A, B, C, D 1, 2, 3, 4
and the only other ‘internet’ reference I’ll make in today’s blog is to this house on Airport Road. I love the ‘fairy’ motif they have in the front yard…
Fairy photographs wiki (Cottingley fairies)
Fairy house
front porch
front porch close-up
fairy or angel?
reclining fairy
blowing a kiss
AND THE BEST OF THE REST of the photos…
at the start of my walk (a little after 6 AM)
same scene at the end of my walk (with better light)
appealing sign
Wolf Pack trailer
dog park
greeting me at the dog park
farm equipment for sale
more farm equipment for sale
Boulder County Open Space & Transportation
rustic cabin
Boulder County Open Space (another view)
country mansion
I haven’t seen an irrigation ditch dam in MANY years
old wagon
vehicles and foothills west of town
oil rig equipment?
old entryway
Coyote Trail road winding off to the west
horse property
business north of Seagate
BIG shed
farm house