The f-18s Fly by the crowd one right side up and the other upside down.

Fans were awed by Blue angels passing each other.

A Blue Angel flies very close to the West Star Aviation Air Show fans parked on the hills northeast of the airport.

Zeron, left,  and Joshua Lawson make a message to a active duty soldier at the Air National Guard booth.

Kannah Creek brewer Emma Faulkner attaches a hose to a fermentation tank as she prepares to move the brew from the kettle to the tank.

Kannah Creek brewer Matt Simpson stirs the 154-degree mash with a paddle as he brews a batch of Lands End Amber Ale at Kannah Creek Brewing Co.

A batch of Kannah Creek Brewing Co.’s Lands End Amber beer sits in the kettle before it is transferred to the fermentation tank.

Jim Jeffryes of Kannah Creek Brewing Co. has broken ground on a second location at Ninth Street and Struthers Avenue near the Colorado River that will be the Kannah Creek Brewing Co. at Edgewater when completed.

Reverend Luke Uhl of the Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Grand Junction conducts a blessing at the start of the Greek Festival Saturday.

Indian rock art on a high canyon wall in Rough Canyon in the Bangs Canyon Recreation Area, south west of Grand Junction.The Bangs Canyon Special Recreation Management Area encompasses a stunning landscape of high desert canyons and plateaus overlooking the Grand Valley and Grand Mesa.

Shoppers browse the storefronts in downtown Palisade, nominated to Budget Travel’s “Coolest Small Towns 2013” list.

Mesa County Commission District 3 candidates Dave Edwards and Rose Pugleise listen to a question from a Redlands Rotary Club member at the Redlands Mesa Golf Course Friday.

The third annual Men In Heels race downtown Grand Junction raised money for the Latimer House Thursday.

The third annual Men In Heels race downtown Grand Junction raised money for the Latimer House Thursday.

The third annual Men In Heels race downtown Grand Junction raised money for the Latimer House Thursday.

Eight-year-old Ryder Mancuso from Palisade kicks for 38 feet 8 inches during the Punt Pass and Kick competition at Peach Bowl Park in Palisade Thu. afternoon.Mancuso also passed for 47 feet 6 inches and a punt of 57 feet 10 inches.

Hikers set in Skyline Arch in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah. In 1940, a large boulder fell out of Skyline Arch, roughly doubling the size of the arch opening.Archers National Park has over 2,000 cataloged archers ranging in size from a 3-foot opening to Landscape Arch, which is 306 feet from base to base.

Bob Wilson, president of the Grand Valley Audubon Society, points out the actual tree that is pictured on one of four signs along the new Birding for Everyone Trail in the Ela Sanctuary along Dike Road.  Each sign along the handicapped-accessible trail also has an audio feature of a particular bird’s song.

Grand Junction firefighters reroute traffic around a knocked down light pole blocking both eastbound lanes of Highway 6 & 50 east of Red Robin restaurant following a hit and run single vehicle accident Thursday. Police officers arrested 52-year-old Robert Sheets who, according to witnesses, was the driver in the accident at the entrance to a car dealership several blocks to the east along Highway 6. Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor in the accident.

The Chimney Rock Great House Pueblo. President Barack Obama will designates Chimney Rock as a National Monument on September 21, 2012. Chimney Rock is a San Juan National Forest Archaeological Area located in Colorado between Durango and Pagosa Springs and managed for archaeological protection, public interpretation, and education. Its care, protection, and preservation are shared by the Pagosa Ranger District, USDA Forest Service and the public, who contribute through tour fees, donations, and purchase of items from the Chimney Rock Visitor’s Center. The Chimney Rock Interpretive Program, managed and staffed by the National Forest Service and volunteers of the Chimney Rock Interpretive Association, conducts daily guided walking tours and operates the Visitor Center during in-season, May 15 to September 30.
For more photos from Chimney Rock go to gjsentinel.com.

The Blue Angels jet that will be flown by U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. C.J. Simonsen during the WestStar Aviation Air Show this weekend banks to the left as it prepares to land at Grand Junction Regional Airport on Wednesday. Six Blue Angels arrived in formation to join a seventh that was already at the airport.

The lead Blue Angel jet peels up and away from the formation as the six F-18 Hornets prepare for landing at Grand Junction Regional Airport Wednesday. The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels will perform at this weekend’s West Star Aviation Air Show.

Daily Sentinel publisher Jay Seaton, center, listens to instructions from a Blue Angels staff member as he is prepared for his flight in one of the group’s F-18 Hornets on Wednesday.

U.S. Navy Lt. Mark Tedrow and Daily Sentinel publisher Jay Seaton cruise down the runway at Grand Junction Regional Airport in one of the Blue Angels’ F-18 Hornets as the two take off for a brief flight today in this photo taken by Dan Puleio, a public affairs officer with the U.S. Navy. Six more Blue Angel aircraft and pilots will arrive at the airport this afternoon in preparation for this weekend’s air show.

Brent Helleckson, left with Storn Cottage Cellars pours a taste of wine for Tom Menza of Colorado Springs at the 2012 Colorado Mountain Wine Festival in Riverbend Park in Palisade.

Randy DiDonato, owner of Infinity Surfaces, points to the many images of granite that can be printed on TrueStone products.

Vance Johnson, right, and his partner Ron Gookin kick off the first day of their new Epic-Curious food truck with lunch and autographs by Johnson at the corner of Seventh Street and North Avenue on Wednesday.  Johnson, a former football player with the Denver Broncos, is the owner of the restaurant Epic-Curious located at First Street and Grand Avenue.

Pilot James Lee Dittrick, second from right, glances over at Glade Park firefighters near the wreckage of his home-built airplane after he crashed into power lines at 16801 Pinon Park Lane on Glade Park following problems during takeoff from a private airstrip this morning.

Mike Perry, executive director of the Museum of Western Colorado, runs his fingers over the surface of concrete that vandals used to cover two old-style swastikas on a 6,000-pound piece of granite that John Otto had commissioned carved in 1915 after the first custodian of the Colorado National Monument returned from a trip to San Francisco

The ìJohn Otto mystery rockî sits outside the Museum of the West, where Dave Edwards, a candidate for the Mesa County Commission, said he was distressed as a homosexual and a Jew, when he saw the rock on Tuesday. Otto, who was a proponent of a national park on Colorado National Monument, carved the rock and its symbol in 1915, long before the rise of the Third Reich.

No. 1, Brianna Baldwin from Grand Junction High School slides into second base with a steal as the ball gets away from No. 2, Tiana Wirth from Central High School in the first inning.

Grand Avenue between Second and Fifth Streets has been closed down to a single lane in each direction while crews replace an old iron water line with new PVC pipe as part of the city’s 2012 waterline replacement project

A large solar balloon floated over the buildings on the Colorado Mesa University campus causing traffic to slow on North Avenue Tuesday afternoon.

A cement truck has rolled over in the median I-70 while working on a construction site. The truck rolled over at the overpass at the Loma exit. The call came in at 3:23 p.m. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital.

Holiday decorations have been filling the aisles of local stores as crafters begin preparing for season.

A honey bee is furiously collecting pollen from a rose in the circle garden near the Lincoln Park Golf Course. The blooming season is coming to a close in the colorful garden first started by the Grand Junction Garden Club in 1939 according to a marker in the garden. Another plaque indicates that the Desert Vista Garden Club starting in 1991 sponsors the rose garden.

Seven-year-old rock seller Payton Edwards tries to close a deal with a tourist recently at the terminal of the Durango & Silverton narrow Gauge Railroad. Payton said he had made $6 at one or two dollars a rock.

Noah Nelson of Fruita tries to head a shot into the goal on a corner kick.

Physical therapist Anouk Kincaid talks about some of the services available for their young clients during an open house at Family Health West’s Pediatric Rehabilitation center, 576 Kokopelli Blvd., Suite F in Fruita on Sept. 13. Therapists at the center work with developmentally disabled children.

911 Dispatcher Christine Gaty works on her console taking a call at the new Grand Junction Police station.

Jake Jabs, CEO of American Furniture Warehouse, is the keynote speaker to a Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce Meeting honoring business that are expanding

Antoinette Love pushes her daughter Serenity, 2, of Grand Junction at the play ground at Lincoln Park Sunday on a pleasant end of summer day.

SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL, Mesa County Animal Services—Red is shown Thursday night after Mesa County Animal Services took custody of the puppy. Its owner was arrested on suspicion of abusing the animal. Mesa County Animal Services took action in 166 cruelty investigations through July, nearly double the pace of recent years, the department manager said.

Bareback rider Matthew Markman gets cross ways on his mustang but was able to pull himself up avoiding a bad fall for a no ride at the CPRA Finals at the Mesa County fairgrounds.

Cindy Stewart serves fresh salad and fresh Grand Valley fruit to first-graders at Chipeta Elementary School.

Kate Koschoreck and Georgia Beletsos of Denver get a laugh out of the “World Peach” t-shirts on the last day of the Colorado Mountain Whiniest at the farmers market in Palisade Sunday.

Photos by JEFF TOMKUS/Special to Sentinel—People stand on a bridge built by Bonsai Design along the Tree Tops Canopy Tour in Fayettville, W. Va.

Bonsai Design, a Grand Junction-based company that designs and installs zip lines, a pastime for the adventurous, has grown in popularity much like the budding ecotourism industry. In only seven years, the company has built 30 adventure courses nationwide, including Hawaii, and in Mexico and Canada. Photo Special to the Sentinel/ Jeff Tomkus