Archive for the ‘The Great Outdoors’ Category

a day in the life

Posted on June 15th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

Here’s a peek into our day yesterday! Cash made a whole batch of these drawings when he got up in the morning.  It’s typical Cash art, and I think it’s actually writing (the paper is sideways). A photo of my elbow, by Cash. Bre’fis. 🙂 I love my new Lodge skillet.  I seasoned it in […]



at the park with mimi

Posted on June 11th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

We’ve been having so much fun that it’s hard to believe our week with Mimi is almost over. We’ve gone swimming at the pool, sunned on the porch, introduced her to the goats, walked our dirt road, cracked ourselves up at the Buffalo Bill Museum, sat under the Flatirons, made raspberry-banana-cashew ice cream, and talked […]



june!

Posted on June 1st, 2015 by mountain girl  |  9 Comments »

Happy first of June!  The kids finished school Thursday…yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Zia set a goal to learn to ride a bike this summer–the poor thing doesn’t have much ground at home other than cliff faces, so she hasn’t ever really tried.  Thursday after she got home I took her to a paved basketball court down the road, […]



breaking a trail

Posted on May 24th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

We have a beautiful little woods just above our house, and we’ve been working up there for the past couple of days.  It is north-facing, so it’s more of a lush forest than a crackly dry one.  Our trees are mostly young aspens and young-to-middle-aged ponderosa pines.  Bright green moss and delicate lichen cover rocks, […]



a (maybe) final wintry blast

Posted on May 21st, 2015 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

WINTERRRRRRRBRRRRR!!!!!  Here are our last couple of days in photos–not so much to mourn them as to record them–since today it’s warming up!  If I even dare say it. A very old neighbor once told me that the year-round climate of our neighborhood here is identical to that of Anchorage, where he and his wife […]