It was seventeen below zero this morning, and eleven below by the time I was on the road at 7:40 taking Zia to school. Today she is trying out a full day to see how she likes it. The kids in her class are making snowflakes to decorate the city tree this afternoon. I left […]
We went to Lakewood to renew our driver’s licenses this morning, and stopped to pick up my new camera on the way home. I haven’t had much time to play around with it, but the battery is charged and I took these pics around 4:10 pm. The top photo was taken with the flash, which […]
We love this park. It’s one of those little neighborhood parks that probably 20 years ago was teeming with kids–swinging, sliding, whooping, getting in one last game before they were called to dinner. Now it’s deserted. We usually drive past it at least twice a day, and since we moved here I have never seen […]
In our travels into civilization this weekend, we found this coonskin cap at a mountain market. We’ve gotten lots of “Hey, Davy Crockett!” and “Are you Daniel Boone?” He just grins. It’s the only hat he will wear, and he thinks he’s incredibly funny when he has it on. (Which he is.) We also stopped […]
That tiny bit of snow on the post is our very first. It rained most of the day, temperatures were in the 30’s, and this evening we looked out the windows to see we were surrounded by flurries of snow. Snow in September? You just take what the mountains give you, I guess. The higher […]
