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This Fourth of July holiday, there are no fireworks, but there is plenty of color. The blues, yellow, purples, reds and pinks are eye-popping in their bursts of color as we hike. One particular thatch of chiming-bells along the creek has created a purple haze as far as the eye…
Continue readingTheir colorful wings darted in and around us. So many of them, flitting through the air, weaving in and out of the meadows filled with wildflowers. Black and white, blue — striking in their pattern. The butterflies seemed to be enjoying this perfect blue sky day as much as the…
Continue readingThe race is on. Can I get home before the yogurt turns to soup? Will the frozen pizza be a limp piece of thawed crust before it makes into my freezer? These questions will be answered by whether I am stuck behind a turtle going up the canyon, and whether…
Continue readingI walk around the lake’s rim, taking in all that alpine beauty. Then I notice it. It’s a chair. A chair made of dead wood and rocks to make a seat to enjoy this piece of serenity high up in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. I sit, gazing upon the peaks,…
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