Hey, a restaurant that’s newer to town than I am! Ginger and Baker has only been open a week or so. It’s an enormous complex with two restaurants, a pie and coffee shop, a cutesy gift shop, and a training kitchen. If the photos below look as though they were taken at different times of […]
Read MoreNorth Shields Ponds
Every time I drive down Shields Street, I see a sign with two happy-looking turtles on it. Today I came home full of pent-up energy and asked Dan if we could check out the turtle sign behind our house. After some decoding — any conversation between Dan and me requires a little bit of translation […]
Read MoreBas Bleu Theatre: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Before we settled on Fort Collins, Dan and I visited a handful of other neighborhoods across Colorado to see if they might be a fit for us. Often the towns would offer stunning mountain views, breweries galore… and more than an hour’s drive to anything resembling theater. In “FoCo,” Dan and I can drive a […]
Read MoreTwitter Day
About a decade ago, I made a handful of really great friends through Twitter. (Dan was one of those people, actually!) This weekend a pair of those friends were nearby — Lindsay and Tim were visiting Lindsay’s family in Denver for Thanksgiving. Dan and I met them in Golden, at a brewery where Lindsay’s brother’s […]
Read MoreScouting Soapstone Prairie
For Black Friday we scouted out Soapstone Prairie to see if it would be suitable for future mountain biking (…on Dan’s part). Soapstone is about 40 minutes north of our house, still within the city of Fort Collins and stretching almost to the Wyoming border. It. was so. windy. Whatever you’re imagining, triple it. (Unless […]
Read MoreEagles and turkeys
Our Thanksgiving began with a sleeping pill. Neither Dan nor I had been sleeping well, and our Thursday morning plans fell through (feel better, Justin!), so we crashed hard the night before with the help of some Unisom. Eventually we did drag ourselves out of the house to visit Eagle’s Nest. We had the trail […]
Read MoreDraplin Design Co.
One of the important things Dan and I have in common is that we are both curious people. We actively look for ways to broaden our horizons, and very rarely do I suggest we attend/visit/explore something that Dan turns his nose up at. I would say we are both hobby designers. Dan actually has a […]
Read MoreHello, Danny!
The community of transplants from Ohio is strong in Colorado, I am quickly learning. Today I had an interview with a woman from Columbus; yesterday I met someone from Athens in church. When we were a few weeks out from leaving Cincinnati, our friend Danny Korman reached out to say he was also moving to Colorado — in fact, […]
Read MoreCan’t talk, dead from murals
When last visiting Denver, Dan and I strayed from our usual path to explore the River North (RiNo) Art District. I had known it was a trendy neighborhood with cute shops and a funky market, but I was unprepared for the overwhelmingly beautiful murals on practically every wall. (Read about RiNo’s CRUSH initiative here.) The shots […]
Read MoreCircle of Animals
To mark 4 weeks in Colorado, Dan and I drove to Denver for a docent talk on an Ai Weiwei installation. These bronze animal heads are reinterpretations of zodiac heads that used to form a Chinese “fountain clock” — apparently each animal would spout for one hour, then they would all spout on the hour, […]
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