A Better Bosun

The restoration of the facade is almost complete. A great improvement from what was there last fall!

Bosun progress

Ahh, that's better. The blank flat facade of the Bosun Hall is getting a roof to cover the entry.

Almost a grocery store

I like the way the roofline fits in with the tree behind it. Apparently the floor has had its 28 days to cure and they're moving in shelving and coolers. They expect to open by early June.

Construction on Main Street

The new craft store is getting its porch built. Construction of the building began last fall. 

My Aunt's Place

This is the formerly-crumbling building that used to house "My Aunt's Place," an ice cream store, gift shop, lottery ticket agent and a surprisingly terrific little yarn store. The owner retired several years ago and the building had sat dismal and empty ever since. It's the left-hand building in this photo. Now it is on its way to becoming something new. We're not sure what.

Bosun Hall facelift, continued

Facelift

The Bosun Hall is getting a long overdue facelift. 

Houselet

This tiny ramshackle house is right in the middle of the "core commercial district." It's for sale. Anyone want to move here and start an intimate little year-round locavore restaurant? There's a dearth of eating-out opportunities from October to April.

Roofing and porch

The hardware store has roofing and the porch is going on.

Waiting

Another storefront, opposite the vacant ones in yesterday's post. This one isn't vacant, though, just on a winter hiatus. A pottery shop and café will open in the spring. The building recently endured an extensive renovation and nice, historically-sensitive facade upgrade.

Log cabin

This is the first small cabin built, around 1970, by a US Vietnam draft dodger who moved to the wilderness and taught himself log-home building.

Snow domes

The Domes look even more alien with a fresh coat of snow.

Beside the Kohan

When the small residential plot of land beside the Kohan Reflection Garden sold a few years ago there were worries about what sort of house would be built there. How fitting that the new owner should turn out to be a second-generation local Japanese-Canadian who put up a beautiful home built of natural, locally-sourced materials using a Japanese-inspired design.

Internment House

During WWII there were scores of these houses built in the "Orchard" area of New Denver for interned Japanese and Japanese-Canadian families. Fourteen by twenty-eight feet, some housed two families. Many of these houses still exist, now upgraded with insulation, indoor plumbing and electricity, but most have had large extensions added on. This one lives on in its original diminutive dimensions.

Laundromat

Progress

Things are moving quickly with the new craft store. Just a three weeks ago it was nothing more than < this >.

Rosebery Bay

Boathouse

Church, mountains, cloud

Catholic church in the foreground, Valhalla Provincial Park (with fresh snow) in the background.

Cody

Cold, high, dark and forgotten, Cody is the ghost town beyond the ghost town. This ramshackle building is all that remains of it.