Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
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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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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Does the world need a few more pictures of Dan and my annual Christmas lasagna? Honestly no, probably not — but this tradition brings our little household so much joy, I’m sharing it anyway. The lasagna turned out beautifully. We always follow the same recipe, but over the years we’ve made enough tweaks that it […]
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Even though little looks the same this year, not every tradition needs to go be the wayside. This year I was so, so happy to find an opportunity to hand-build my own holiday wreath again, having had such a fun time doing so last December. Not only was this year’s wreath workshop as good as […]
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Dan and I had the fortune to be invited to my niece’s first birthday party. The “pancakes and pajamas” party gathered Fiona’s friends and family on Zoom. We got to watch Fiona be spoiled rotten by gifts, then toddle around her living room. She’s becoming quite the little walker. (Sometimes I can’t believe that my […]
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I have officially gotten more tattoos (two) than haircuts (one) since March. (Sidebar: If you’ve been to a tattoo parlor, you know the good ones were some of the most sanitized places you could go, even before the pandemic. Getting a tattoo is not a zero-risk situation, but with everyone in masks and no more […]
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Let me introduce you to my pandemic tattoo. When Dan and I spent a week in Grand Junction, Colorado, we fell head-over-heels in love with Gambel’s quails. Neither of us had seen them before — they mostly live in the Southwest, but Grand Junction has a very desert-like climate — and there was a family […]
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Dan and I have a new way to get out of the house while staying socially distant: kayaking. Technically, Minerva is a packraft, not a kayak. Same diff. It inflates in a snap. Why “Minerva”? Recently I’ve been inspired by a piece of local history. In 1910, an entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson founded the […]
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I recognize that it can be challenging to be my friend if you don’t love being photographed. If you’re ever caught in that position, I hope you can understand how the people I spend my time with are more important than the places that I go. (Linda, in particular, is one of my most important […]
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I would not have considered myself a cyclist until about two years ago. Now I cannot live without my bike, which I take on several rides per week with Linda and Tony, and use to run errands whenever I can. The thing I don’t usually do is ride with Dan, who usually prefers solo mountain […]
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