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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