patriotism in Idaho City

traditionally over the holiday, an artist friend, dirk, has a campout at his property in idaho city. randy, kaden and i trekked up there with our trailers to escape the heat and help him with his burningman art installation, called 'chroma'.

 the boys and i settled in and levelled

 dirk's foundry, one of 2 shops he has for his amazing metal works 


pat packs sand for molding plates

randy and kaden's friend cole has a place in garden valley, we hopped over the hill to spend a day hanging out at the ranch and swimming in the river. this house was bought out of a sears and robuck catalog, it has been in cole's family since 1906. his family owned the whole valley, then split it between their 16 children. Cole is the last to keep any of it.

cole breaks horses and such, i'm not sure why he has these two calves, they were very sweet (and skinny)

 the boys down at the river

back at dirk's, ian and heather whip up maple sausage with portabello soft tacos 

 

in the 2nd studio, we have our own d.j. to keep us motivated

 beer works just as well

 randy and dirk work on a section of chroma

filling the hot tub