Evergreen and the Hiwan Homestead Museum

Jessica and I are meeting with a client who will be having their wedding at the Evergreen Conference Center so we decided to take an afternoon drive up there this weekend. The weather was incredible and it felt great to get out of the house. I always start to get "cabin fever" this time of year. In fact I spent some time in REI today just looking at backpacks and all their other cool gear.

But anyway, Evergreen is a great little town only about 30 minutes west of Denver. The conference center is in a beautiful location and we are excited about the possibility of photographing a wedding there. We also made a stop at the Hiwan Homestead Museum a pretty cool place if you like history...and if you don't, well it is still a neat place. Definitely worth checking out if you have a free afternoon. There are also some great Open Space parks in and around Evergreen which have some great hiking, if you like that kind of thing.

Jessica makes a great model.


I guess I make a pretty good model.


I love pictures with both of us.


Jessica was unaware that it was a working bell. Until she rang it, then the loud sound let us know that it was in fact functional.


A very random, very cool picture.


Another random picture.


These are the actual tools that the architect used to build the home...a long time ago. It's amazing how advanced people were even 150 years ago.


These are the letters that were used in the printing press.


This is the actual printing press. Seriously, how much more difficult would your life be if that's how you had to type?


A wagon wheel.


How about traveling cross country in this?