Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
As a reminder, in October I got the first half of a two-part tattoo. This first bird is “singing” an image of daytime, and you can read its story here. Yesterday I went back to complete the pair… this time, with the bird singing an image of nighttime. Here’s how the new bird looked this […]
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It had been a while since I’d been struck with The Idea for a tattoo. I always have a handful of maybes in my mind, but when I get The Idea, I usually know it right away. That simply hadn’t happened, not since March. Then two things happened in quick succession. First, my awesome coworkers […]
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Recently an assignment from school inspired me to ask my grandmother Hazel a few questions that I don’t remember asking her before, including how she met my grandfather. It’s a lovely story that maybe I’ll tell you some time — possibly in a poem? One of the details that stuck out to me was that […]
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When I was growing up, I remember my grandmother saying that she looked “like the wreck of the Hesperus” whenever she felt disheveled, as in: “Oh honey, don’t take my picture right now, I look like the wreck of the Hesperus.” It’s a phrase I have always loved, have never personally heard anyone else say, […]
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We needed a night off. I just finished the last week of the semester, and I’m beat. We decided we need a small road trip, so we loaded up the van.* *I can’t believe I haven’t introduced you to the van yet! I’ll do another post about the beginning of this beautiful project, which will […]
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Besides visiting Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, Dan and I had one other goal for our Utah workcation: get the bikes dirty. Of course, that means something different for me than for him. Dan found a rental house parked right on a paved bike trail, so I had two different options for quick 7-mile spins […]
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You know what they say about the best-laid plans… We had to cut our Moab trip a little short due to “an historic winter storm” rolling into Colorado. (Some snow at home is not a big deal, but driving through the mountains on the other hand…) Since this was a working trip for me, the […]
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Greetings from Utah! Dan and I are in Moab or a work-cation: we’ll both work our regular hours during the week but spend the weekends in the nearby National Parks. Dan will also spend some bonus time mountain biking. Though our rental is a stone’s throw from Arches, we spent Saturday driving around Canyonlands NP. […]
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I have dozens of tattoo ideas that I have been weighing for years, hemming and hawing over their details and placement. However, the ideas that I end up acting on tend to come to me quickly, clearly, and completely. This new bit of ink is a great example. (Above: an awkward photo of the original […]
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I won’t bore you with a post about the joy of leaving 2020 in the dust, though joy there is. I prefer to spend the holiday looking forward. Dan and I enjoyed two fun hikes in two days. On New Year’s Eve we headed to our nearby Lory State Park — we hadn’t been there […]
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