Valarie At The Beautiful Junk Sale

I went to the Beautiful Junk Sale at the Jefferson County, Colorado Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon and while there took the above photograph of my friend Valarie.  Valarie works for The Action Center, a non-profit organization that assists people on hard times, and was formerly the Operations Manager of the University of Denver Bookstore, where I was the Finance Manager for 30 years.  Valarie also once owned Capitol Hill Books, a used book store just across the street from the Colorado State Capitol, and takes care of the used book part of the Beautiful Junk sale.  I usually arrive in the last hour of the sale, when you can buy a shopping bag full of books for $10, and fill it indiscriminately, mostly with out of date travel books with lots of photographs.  Nobody else seems to want them, but I do.  The best sites never go out of date, after all.  Just ask travel guru Rick Steves.  He knows, even if he does update his travel guides every year.