5-30-09 BOULDER, COLORADO: We got here yesterday in time for the rehearsal dinner. It was held in the garden of the Alumni Center of Colorado U. The city is pleasant and clean with a lot of sandstone construction. The sandstone hills loom up west of the town. It is a typical western city with broad streets and sidewalks and few tall buildings. The look is open and spacious, rather like an assemblage of strip malls.
The Pearl St. pedestrian mall is loaded with street music and cafés and runs for several blocks. The CU campus is very green and treed and also spacious.
Just west of town is Boulder Canyon carved out of a granite pluton. We discovered the canyon and its hiking trails and spent the afternoon there.
Boulder Canyon granites.
Uplifted, tilted sandstone foothills named for Flatirons.
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