Archive for the ‘The Great Outdoors’ Category

winter arts festival, snowshoeing, and a new baby

Posted on December 15th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

Last Saturday was the Winter Arts Festival in our town. I called in on a whim four days prior and found there was one space left, just for me. 🙂 I signed up, applied for a tax number, and by Saturday I had everything ready. Setting everything up! After helping me set up, David took […]



thanksgiving 2015

Posted on November 26th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

  Happy Thanksgiving!



kinda like winter

Posted on October 22nd, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

We woke up to a white wonderland this morning, after a tiny first-of-the-season snow yesterday.  David, Cash, and I had to go to town today via the hair-raising turns of Golden Gate Canyon, un-plowed.  Soon after, we found out the roads to home closed behind us due to accidents, and the power had gone out […]



fall fun, new art, and a visit from “the dentist”

Posted on October 19th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Zia had her friend Lola over for a sleepover, followed by a visit to Cottonwood Farms in Boulder for a hayride, mazes, and a petting zoo.  A funny story: I was driving them home when we first picked up Lola, and yippee! there in the middle of the road was a big metal clamp, perfect for […]



rainbow day

Posted on September 15th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Cash and I headed to Nederland this morning to return a library book.  It was sprinkling a little, and we saw this amazing full rainbow.  The second-from-top photo is of a cattle farm along the way whose barns and houses are painted light pink, always giving me the sense of a perpetual sunrise/sunset.  The rainbow […]