Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
I took a break from my very amateur birdwatching during the fall — the weather was too perfect for bike riding, and I rarely have time for both. However, now we have a fresh batch of snow on the ground and days with highs of ~30 degrees, so my binoculars have been seeing more action. […]
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Even *I* can’t eat dinner at 4pm. Okay, we all know that’s a lie. However, when an errand that Dan and I were running in Longmont, Colorado wrapped up early, we decided to visit a local cider shop to kill an hour until the much more respectable 5pm dinnertime. Even though cider options seem to […]
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Here’s an easy Friend Test for you: ask if they’d like to drive an hour each way to try a new pizza place. If the answer is a resounding “Yes!,” great news, your friends are awesome. If the answer is, “Oh, Babette’s Artisan Breads? I’ve read that they’ve moved from Denver to Longmont and their […]
Read MoreA dusting! A dusting!! A paltry amount of snow has rolled into northern Colorado! Here is photo evidence from La Vita Bella Coffee in Longmont, where I had a coffee date with my delightful friend Anna. The drive was pretty and stark — the usually rust-colored mountains of the Front Range were (just barely) white with […]
Read MoreOne of the most surprising forms of support has been friends offering me connections with other friends and colleagues they know in Colorado. Yesterday I met one such friend in Longmont. Not only was it a fun and enlightening conversation (she has been in Colorado for about 6 months now), but she also scoped a […]
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