Pruning Trees

 The city maintains the trees on the public right-of-way.

Fire

Fire on Table Rock last night.  2500 acres and one home lost

I heard it was caused by fireworks

Grasses

Hollyhock

Not mine.  Seen on one of my walks.

Small Yellow House

In the neighborhood

Red Chairs

Sitting area in a local front yard garden.

Construction at Harris Ranch

 

Scooters

Scooter left at the playground.

Bridalvail Spirea

Garden Gate

New gate for a neighborhood garden.

Broken Window

The Jefferson

Condos on Jefferson and 4th downtown.

Downtown View

From Fort Boise Park

Arrowleaf balsamroot

Dogwood

I like time of year, everything is green and the trees are blooming.

House on Warm Springs

April Flowers

Dog Toys

Not sure why.

Feeding the Squirrels

Couple feeding squirrel in a local park.  I count 11 in this picture but at one time up to 20 squirrels were seen.

Park Shelter

Shelter in Marianne Williams Park, Harris Ranch, Boise.

Roof Line

Batty

A small brown bat on the side of main building at the Depot. 

Brown Doors

Boise Depot

Downtown

Looking down Capitol Blvd.  Downtown with the foothills in the background.

March 3 2016

Another sign that spring is coming

Yellow and Lavander Crocus

Bee and crocus

Boise High School

Lucky Peak Reservior

View from Spring Shores Unit,  Lucky Peak State Park.

Golden Fountain

Drinking fountain at the capitol building.

Carnegie Library

Boise's Carnegie Library:  Built in 1905 and used as a library until 1974 when the library was moved to newer larger build.

Former County Courthouse

 The old Ada County Courthouse and jail is now the Idaho Law and Justice Learning Center.  

Table Rock

Table Rock viewed from the green belt

EVSE at The Sierra Club

Charged my car there today.  Very friendly people.

View of Luck Peak

Idaho and 1st

From a parking garage at Saint Luke's Hospital looking south onto First Street. 

Razor

Sign of Spring

Found some flowers on my walk yesterday

Chickens

Someones chickens got out and were exploring the neighborhood

Red and White

Few crab apples still hanging on

Tracks in the Snow

 Top: Deer tracks

Bottom: Racoon tracks

Morning Sun

Dusting of snow over night then sun in the morning.

Early 70s Boise

Going through some of Dad's old negatives and found this 4x5 negative of downtown Boise from the early 1970's I think.  The Standard Furniture building is now a flat parking lot. The Hotel Boise building is still here but no longer a hotel.  Offices now instead of guest rooms.

Pathway

MK Nature Center

Trees and Water

More from the MK Nature Center.

Water and Fog

Got out the house for a bit today and stopped at the MK Nature Center on my way home. 

Shiny Yellow Ball

Morning Sky

Lots of fun colors

Snowman

With the first snow fall came the first snowman.  Created by the kids down the street.

Red Rose

A few roses are blooming.  These are protected from cold by the building.