I was about three hundred miles outside of Denver, near Salida, when I realized that I hadnt packed any pants on a 3 night camping trip to Mesa Verde and Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Parks.F...
And heres some trivia about me: Im a high maintenance ski vvies girl. As a teenager my mom took me to Victorias Secret on a regular basis, plunking down cash for skivvies that held up really...
This Sunday was a good one. It wasnt busy at all. I had a bike race that I was going to do on Saturday and one for today as well. It poured on Saturday making the trails completely impassable and mak...
For the past few weeks Ive been heading to this amazing free yoga class at the Denver Nature and Science Museum. Im not much of a Yoga person - Ive taken the occasional class here and there with frie...
It was my birthday last Sunday the 6th, and in keeping with tradition I had a wonderful day!There was a brand new birthday dress, lunch out, and a mountain bike ride up an actual mountain. I alw...
These are the last of the pictures of my home.I hope you enjoyed this peek into how we live.
This is my living room - huge and airy and full of things I love.Sometimes, when I feel like it, I push the furniture against the walls, roll up the rug, put on my pointe shoes and dance on the hardw...
Here is my dining room.Other Rooms:The Kitchen and Front Hall
Welcome to my home. The stove is from 1948, the kitchen was re-done shortly thereafter. Im guessing its from the early 1950s or so. I love that the apartment still has the original te...
Update: After much thought and consideration and conversations with people, beautiful and worried emails, phone calls, texts, facebook messages of support, and comments left here Ive decided that may...
Its so quiet here because Im busy riding bikes. I added this Yeti to my fleet and Ive been spending some quality time riding around on it. I sold my mountain bike last year saying there was...
Glory be!(Photos taken in Santa Fe, NM.)
We headed down to Santa Fe again last weekend. We ate more green chili and looked around the city a bit. We attempted to hike the Rio Grande but the path I took down last time no longe...
The kimono sleeved blouses description on the back of the package describes it as "simple to make." They were not incorrect in this assumption! It really has been one of the easiest things Iv...
I found a calling card once while flea marketing. I bought it for a dollar and brought it home. I pinned it up and forgot about it until I started moving things around to spring clean. I decided to g...
Vintage Tennis is our new favorite sport. Its easy and cheap to get into. The rackets cost of all of three dollars at a thrift store and my super-fabulous vintage tennis outfit ran me another ten or ...
These past two weeks Ive been busy being deliberate in my happiness. What a difference its made. The house is more peaceful, my husband is more amiable and agreeable. I sleep better. This w...
Here are the last of the Moab pictures. The last day we were there it was doing a funny snow/rain mix and even though it was cold it was very beautiful. Ive only ever seen Moab in the blin...
I love a lot of things, but here are some of the things I love the most today:(Photo via Skonahem, a great Scandinavian h ome design blog.)- Old windows picked up off the curb- Speaking Fren...
We go to Moab a lot because its close. And because its beautiful.This time we had planned to go to Moab. (Remember last time when we went? We wanted to go snowshoing but just kept on driving to ...
Last week I had the flu or consumption or whatever the kids these days call fever/chills/achy joints/stuffy nose &etc. This week Im catching up at work from having the flu or consumption or whate...
There are two stages to a spring clean for us - The first one is editing my home and the second one involves scrubbing it. We have edited regularly for the last three or four years bec...
I have a whole stack of Downton Abbey era sheet music. The earliest one is from the 1890s and the newest ones are from about 1919. They were owned by a woman named Gertrude who painstakingl...
My wish last night came true. About thirty seconds after I posted the blog the district website stated we were going to have a snow day. Both JR and I were off and at home all day. And what...
Were waiting on a winter storm here. With any luck it might mean a snow day tomorrow, a white winter wonderland, and the hush of a city put to bed under a blanket of snow. Keep your fingers cros...
All night headlights dazzlethe leaves. Truck-driversthrobbing on pillsclimb out of the sleepof farmtowns prim,citiesalive only at nightfallthat span a continent Nameless. Not to be foundby day o...
abandoned front range farm : trying on silly shoes with friendsaccidentally coord inated shoes : vintage mixer at the thrift storebeautiful tree on a night run : broken sidewalks in city parkHere...
I could wax poetic about thrifting, but all Im going to say is that I found a thrift store here that reminds me of thrifting when I was a kid. None of the clothes are over two or three dollars save f...
In that dream Im as old as the mountainsStill as starlight reflected in fountainsChildren grown on the edge of the oceanKept like jewelry, kept with devotionIn that dream moving slow through the morn...
Do you remember this dress?As promised, I reshot it. I have only worn it once before. I wore it to my sophmore homecoming dance, so I speculate I was about 14 the last time I wore it. The d...
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