A Failed Attempt

On Sunday Fred joined me in what started out as a walk upstream toward Eagle and Phenix, to check out "the new part" of the Riverwalk. Here's some of what we discovered along the way --

That broken-off lightpole behind the CSU Art and Theatre Complex has finally been replaced! YAY!


I wish I'd been able to take a better photo of this. Two big ol' cormorants were swimming along, but one had caught a fish just about bigger than he was, and it seemed to take everything he had to keep himself and that fish afloat. In fact, they were under water as much as they were above the surface. We watched for a while until the very swift current took the two birds, and their fish, downstream.

Just a little remaindering ...

When we got to the Powerhouse, where the new part is fenced off, we decided to leave the Riverwalk and walk up to the street (Front Avenue), and go around Eagle and Phenix in an attempt to get to the other end of "the new part." Here are some photos from that attempt -

I've come to love the look of many of these industrial structures.

And I'm totally intrigued by this building. I wonder what it was built for? It looks as if it once had long, narrow windows all the way across the front. I love the color it's been painted.


Evidence that humans once inhabited these now vacant buildings.

Fred took these photos of "up under" the 13th Street Bridge --


I wouldn't recommend going down to this area alone, and definitely not at night. It's pretty desolate, and even a little scary. Front Avenue dead-ends into a chainlink fence underneath the 13th Street Bridge, and there are all sorts of little hidey-holes and dark corners around. There's lots of broken glass in evidence, too. I do have to report, though, that while we were there for the few minutes that it took us to take these photos and look around a little bit, a police officer showed up on one of those little golf-cart vehicles. He didn't say anything to us, but he did hang around for a little while, just checkin' out the area -- and us, too, probably. (Since Fred and I look so threatening, ya know -- ha!)

This is the parking lot behind what used to be Holiday House Furniture (and before that, Maxwell Brothers). Next door is the Bradley Theatre.

I'm interested in this "FAIL" graffiti tag that I keep seeing around.

Oh, and that reminds me -- That's exactly what Fred and I did. We failed in our attempt to access the "other end" of "the new part." You can't get there yet. It's all fenced off and completely inaccessible. Will keep you posted.