Tag: Tourist Town

Indiana Fall 2022 – Nashville

Nashville, Indiana is the nearest town to the cabin we stay in while visiting Indiana in the fall.  It is a quaint tourist town with all that such towns offer – lots of tourist, crowds, expensive stores selling all kinds of goods, expensive restaurants, limited parking.

I am not a fan of such places, but it is always mandatory to take in some of this tourist town on each visit.  I usually end up pacing the sidewalk, while my wife shops.

Sometimes I shoot a few photographs of the local scene with my iPhone camera.

Monochrome Grass, iPhone Photo

Decorative grass and flowers are common along the streets of downtown Nashville.  The sunlight highlighting the plumes on this one inspired me to shoot it, cropping in close to exclude the street scene.

Fall Artwork, iPhone Photo

Nashville is most popular in the fall with the nearby Brown County State Park a draw for leaf peepers.  Artwork and crafts related to fall are common place.

Metallic Leaves, iPhone Photo
Almost Lunch Time, iPhone Photo
Alley Mural, iPhone Photo

This is a small portion of an alleyway wall mural.

That’s it for today,

Ken

Silverton, Colorado, August 2022

Silverton, Colorado is a picturesque old town nestled below Rocky Mountain peaks along U.S. 550 between Durango and Ouray.  Silverton originated during mining boom times in the nearby mountains and was a rowdy place of saloons and bawdy houses, where the miners came to spend their wages, earned by their hard toiling in the mines.

It is now a major tourist attraction with lots of art galleries, antique shops, souvenir shops of all sorts and numerous restaurants and eating places to choose from.  Nothing here is inexpensive, food or otherwise.

Silverton, CO

When we decided it was time to have lunch, most of the restaurants were crowded, including the limited outdoor seating, which we required, since we were traveling with a miniature labradoodle.

We ended up purchasing sandwiches from a food truck that had picnic tables and umbrellas for shade.  The sandwiches were tasty.  In talking to the lady working in the food truck, we discovered she and the food truck were from East Texas not so far from our home base.  They trailer the food truck to Silverton for the tourist season, live in an RV, then back to Texas in the winter months.  There were lots of Texans in Colorado.  No doubt fleeing the excessively hot and dry summer in Texas this year.

Next up a spur of the moment decision to take a 4 wheel drive road to the ghost town of Animas Forks.

Rusty Truck

Let’s hope we don’t end up like this rusty truck in a Silverton alleyway.

Until then,

Ken