This is such a wonderful summer. We have done so much traveling and revisiting places dear to our hearts.
When I first met Ron he was a student at Colorado School of Mines. He was studying metallurgy and minoring in "gold panning." Often dates were spent up on Clear Creek panning. In the Spring when the thaw began you could be sure that he would be up their early in the morning until late at night. He should have been a "49er" but he was born too late.
After we married, Ron would take my brothers and their friends up on the river to work the tailings. Tom, Phil, and friends have probably got tales of their own to tell, but not today.
It had been probably 20 years since he'd been up on river, but this summer we decided we would do it again. Here are the pictures of this adventure.
When I first met Ron he was a student at Colorado School of Mines. He was studying metallurgy and minoring in "gold panning." Often dates were spent up on Clear Creek panning. In the Spring when the thaw began you could be sure that he would be up their early in the morning until late at night. He should have been a "49er" but he was born too late.
After we married, Ron would take my brothers and their friends up on the river to work the tailings. Tom, Phil, and friends have probably got tales of their own to tell, but not today.
It had been probably 20 years since he'd been up on river, but this summer we decided we would do it again. Here are the pictures of this adventure.
(Only a small part as we didn't bring the sluice.)
But when all is said and done it wasn't all for the gold. It was for the thrill of being on the river again and playing in the dirt. There of memories of the past and the one newly made. And Clear Creek still flows on.
~~^j^~~
Thanks be to God!
Thanks be to God!
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Thanks for your reminisces, and good to hear you had such a great weekend going back there.
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Jan
Great adventure you had. Never had the chance to do that. I had to go to my archives, since I don't have many adventures these days. I get around pretty good, but Titanium knees have their limits. A nice new meme for me. Blessings
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Lovely memories of the past are more golden and valuable than any gold we might find.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for this beautiful post.
God bless you.
I just read a novel called "The Silver Queen" which was centered around the Colorado Gold Rush, and the ultimate finding of silver and it's uses. You have certainly done some very interesting things in your travels.
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Abbey ♥
Love to read a bit of the past and how it ties in with a bit of the present...What a wonderful time together... and I would be sooo excited to find that flake of gold :o)
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Thank you so much for stopping by & your sweet comment! I am finally getting a tiny bit of blog reading in! Please come back any time. We really enjoyed our Tulsa memories...my hubby went to bible college while we were there. ...now, I look forward to one day living nearer to where our 3 live. Georgia is just too far away from Kentucky(where 2 of our 3 live now...although, with my husband's work, Colorado Springs is also another possibility...but that is too far too.)
Your adventure sounds like it was so much fun. I loved reading about it. The river is beautiful. Is this post something your doing weekly?
ReplyDeleteThat must have been fun to relive earlier times and have fun panning again.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful expedition! Memories old and new, and you have had such wonderful years inbetween. It's a wonderful life... :)
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