After we left Uncle Leonard's, I am not absolutely sure of the sequence of events.
We went to Rocky Mountain National Park
Chipmunk lured out with a PBandJ
and I remember seeing the Rocky Mountain Sheep, but I don't have any photos of them.
Me up on the rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park
Iceberg Lake
I think after that we spent the night at Professor Wallin's cabin. The story behind the Professor's cabin is as follows:
My father went to interview at the University of Colorado Medical School for a job as a teaching assistant. The questions that the professor asked were -Can you clear land? and Can you notch logs? Evidently my father's answers were satisfactory because he was hired. He spent the summer during the week learning how to dissect a human cadaver, and the weekends building a cabin for the professor.
Prof Wallin
My dad and my mother spent part of their honeymoon there, and 16 years later, we all spend the night there too.
Wallin's cabin
We went fishing and we brought home trout which we fried up for breakfast. Our father taught us to eat them tails and fins and all.
We went to Denver
Prismatic Electric Fountain in Ferril Lake - Denver, CO City Park
and my dad took photos of a fountain where the colors were synced to music,
and we visited my little first cousin Margaret - the daughter of my father's younger sister Mary.
Margaret
My father's sister died in 1944 and her husband had remarried.
Margaret, her father, stepmother and half sister
We went up Mt Evans where the University of Denver Cosmic Ray Lab is.
Mount Evans
My dad had an experiment up there last year, to see whether cosmic rays (from the sun) had any effect on cancer (They do). Some of the mice were up here and some were down in a coal mine in Pennsylvania
Then we went to my father's younger brother Harry. Harry managed the State Game Farm in Colorado Springs. My grandmother was there
Granny, Daddy, Mother, me, my sister Aunt Alice and our cousins
along with our Aunt Alice and my three cousins.
Aunt Alice and Uncle Harry and our cousins
Colorado cousins
The oldest of Uncle Harry's daughters
Uncle Harry with his youngest daughter
The four of us cousins had a really good time there - our youngest cousin Beth was still in diapers. Uncle Harry raised game birds - pheasants and quail. Every morning we would gather the eggs which were put in an incubator to hatch.
Eggs hatching
Bird just hatched
Some of the eggs Aunt Alice would fix for breakfast.
Harry holding eagle
Uncle Harry had to keep predators away from his flock - some of the pens were covered with wire and some were not.
My sister and me holding the eagle
We played on the grain sacks in the barn until we were stopped because it was disintegrating the feed in the sacks.
We went to Rocky Mountain National Park
Chipmunk lured out with a PBandJ
and I remember seeing the Rocky Mountain Sheep, but I don't have any photos of them.
Me up on the rocks in Rocky Mountain National Park
Iceberg Lake
I think after that we spent the night at Professor Wallin's cabin. The story behind the Professor's cabin is as follows:
My father went to interview at the University of Colorado Medical School for a job as a teaching assistant. The questions that the professor asked were -Can you clear land? and Can you notch logs? Evidently my father's answers were satisfactory because he was hired. He spent the summer during the week learning how to dissect a human cadaver, and the weekends building a cabin for the professor.
Prof Wallin
My dad and my mother spent part of their honeymoon there, and 16 years later, we all spend the night there too.
Wallin's cabin
We went fishing and we brought home trout which we fried up for breakfast. Our father taught us to eat them tails and fins and all.
We went to Denver
Prismatic Electric Fountain in Ferril Lake - Denver, CO City Park
and my dad took photos of a fountain where the colors were synced to music,
and we visited my little first cousin Margaret - the daughter of my father's younger sister Mary.
Margaret
My father's sister died in 1944 and her husband had remarried.
Margaret, her father, stepmother and half sister
We went up Mt Evans where the University of Denver Cosmic Ray Lab is.
Mount Evans
My dad had an experiment up there last year, to see whether cosmic rays (from the sun) had any effect on cancer (They do). Some of the mice were up here and some were down in a coal mine in Pennsylvania
Then we went to my father's younger brother Harry. Harry managed the State Game Farm in Colorado Springs. My grandmother was there
Granny, Daddy, Mother, me, my sister Aunt Alice and our cousins
along with our Aunt Alice and my three cousins.
Aunt Alice and Uncle Harry and our cousins
Colorado cousins
The oldest of Uncle Harry's daughters
Uncle Harry with his youngest daughter
The four of us cousins had a really good time there - our youngest cousin Beth was still in diapers. Uncle Harry raised game birds - pheasants and quail. Every morning we would gather the eggs which were put in an incubator to hatch.
Eggs hatching
Bird just hatched
Some of the eggs Aunt Alice would fix for breakfast.
Harry holding eagle
Uncle Harry had to keep predators away from his flock - some of the pens were covered with wire and some were not.
My sister and me holding the eagle
We played on the grain sacks in the barn until we were stopped because it was disintegrating the feed in the sacks.
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