52 Photowalks - Week 30

This weeks photowalk takes place over two weeks time... both walks in the same general location... Southern Idaho. I went with my husband to work two weeks ago, just to get out of the house, and then again last week, just to get out of the house. The only difference was the destination and the traveling companions. Oh, and the duration.

Our first stop... the big rip roaring city of Burley, Idaho. The awesome husband parked in front of this cute little antique store and headed across the street to one of his offices and I said, dang, that antique store is just screaming my name. So I grabbed my camera and headed inside.

I may or may not have been persuaded by the massive amounts of glass in the window... and I may or may not have purchased one of these red goblets...
This was my first antique store ever, so I wasn't sure quite what to expect.
Fascinating!
Ah, a camera I could afford!
Hmmm... I wish my curio cabinet had one more shelf in it.
And this door? I want it. I don't know where I'll put it, but I want it. I pretty much wanted everything in the store. Anytime my husband needs a gift idea, this place is a good place to look (hint hint).

As we purchased our glass finds, we noticed a sign by the register that said "no pictures". Whoops. The proprietor told me it was okay, I seemed harmless enough. Besides, most people take pictures to put on the Internet, and yeah, I wouldn't do that. Never.

Next stop... the Oregon Trail Botanical Garden


Nothing overly impressive, other than their daisies were blooming and mine weren't and I was jealous.
The next week we hit American Falls. They are into time capsules in this little city... I found two of them on the same block, to be opened at different times.
The Ish was our travelling companion this time around.
She came with us while the older kids were off on their pioneer handcart trek.
We left American Falls and went to the big city of Gooding.
The Ish and I went for a walk...
And we threatened to take this sign seriously and abandon her there... the sign says they accept children and well, we had one to give. She's not much of a traveler.
Then it was back to Twin Falls (we drove from Idaho Falls to American Falls to Twin Falls... we have a thing for Falls, me thinks).
We walked down the path by the hotel to see what all the ruckus was about down in the canyon and spied a lovely little fire around the bend. Kind of put a damper on the view... and the air quality. *cough cough* It was out by bedtime. I was thinking these fire fighters needed to come to our neck of the woods and teach us how to put out a wildfire quickly, but it turns out that a wildfire is easy to contain when there is rocks on one side and a river on the other. Oh, and the helicopter has to go about 50 feet to pick up it's next load of water to dump. Doesn't work quite that well out on the local desert.

Then we walked back to the hotel... past the one of the thousand or so waterfalls that drip into the canyon...
And jumped the creek so we didn't have to walk as far...
And then headed home (the next day). Back to life. Back to reality.