Today was my first payday.

 Three weeks have gone by since I began working in Confluence's Denver office. The office itself is in an interesting mixed-use development with other architects and businesses in the vicinity.  The Denver office has 4 younger landscape designers and 3 senior principals, as well as a digital studio (these guys mostly operate out of their own homes here in Denver and work on renders for the other offices). This firm uses SketchUp for 3D modeling, and I have begun to practice some with this. Other than that I mostly bounce between AutoCAD, InDesign, and photoshop to work on different steps of different landscape projects and some marketing work.  The newest project we have is on the site of the former quarry in Connecticut from which New York and Boston supplied their brownstone.  It is rare to have a project so far east but the customer intends to open Nordic spas across North America and Confluence has been the designer for this client's projects before which have been in the Rockies.  I was able to bust out some trash paper and work on a preliminary design of the space before our principal flew out for a site visit. Other projects in rotation include a waterpark, the next top golf, and a few ski resorts and state parks. 

As for me, I have been enjoying the snow and winter weather of Denver.  I've headed to the mountains each weekend and am beginning to get a lay of the land but I've only made it as high as 12,600 feet. I think I'm going to take that paycheck and buy some ice spikes tonight so I can start bagging 13ers and hopefully even some 14ers  before winter is up.  Also, a homeless person jumped on my car and tried to act like I hit them and tried to get money but I refused to be accosted. 


 

Denver 
Some freak
Some work 
Loveland pass






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