Saturday we headed to Nederland’s fall nature festival: the Enchanted Forest. Wild Bear Nature Center puts on the festival, and it’s really fun. Face painting is always number one on our list. Isn’t she funny? We had to laugh every time she looked at us. The Forest Animal Tour is the best part. We rode […]
Friday morning, not even two weeks after the official start of fall, winter made its first appearance! Zia took advantage of the snow and rolled and and played to her heart’s content. It’s a good thing she did… because after the snow came the sun. She brought this delicious snow-mud pie into the kitchen and […]
There’s snow in the mountains! Here are the same mountains, just hours before I looked up and saw they had turned white. You can see there was just a bit of snow left from springtime. With the heat and drought, the mountains have been oddly bare this summer. It seems right that they are white […]
Our week has flown by. In the busyness of taking care of a new baby, homeschooling Zia, and the regular routine of coming down from the mountains on the weekend for groceries, it was great to have a free day–Labor Day! We went to hang out at the creek in Boulder. There’s nothing as exciting […]
National Geographic’s annual Biodiversity Festival was held at Estes Park this year. Saturday morning we all hopped in the car and skedaddled on over. The event was geared toward folks of all ages (3-103, as the website said). There were a ton of science exhibits, with National Geographic folks everywhere to explain the exhibits and […]
