This was probably a very early snow, since the leaves are still on the trees and on the Virginia Creeper which covered the screen porch.
Chalk Creek Gulch is in central Colorado, Eastern Slope, at the foot of Mt. Princeton. In those days the entire gulch, (about 10 mi long,elevation 9000 ft. at the entrance) had a full time population of maybe 12 adults and 3 children. Summers the population multiplied expotentially with miners and tourists.
We had hot spring water, which was blistering hot in the summer (180 F.) and cooled off in the pipes in winter to about 60 F.
There was a hot spring swimming pool/bath house about a quarter mile from our cabin--(we could swim and take baths there in the winter)
Almita the cybergrannie