Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
I have always loved myths and folk tales, and aside from perhaps Greek mythology, the Russian tales of Baba Yaga have long been my favorite. Baba Yaga is an enigmatic figure, an old crone-witch who gobbles up children and flies around in a mortar and pestle. In some stories she is three women; in some […]
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Dan and I were in need of a day trip. I stood in front of our map on our wall and asked if Nebraska was too far. Dan, of course, said no problem. Scotts Bluff National Monument, about 2.5 hours north of Fort Collins, was an important wayfinding point along the Oregon Trail. When we […]
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Garden of Lights is back! The Gardens on Spring Creek have spent the past year under renovation, and this winter they have doubled the size of their Garden of Lights walk-through holiday lighting show. (See last year’s photos here.) ^^Tony and Linda! 🙂 The highlight of my visit this year was, of all things, Santa. […]
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This year, for the first time in my life, I have a fake Christmas tree. Dan and I will be traveling for the holidays and it didn’t make sense to have a live tree in the house just to get rid of it long before Christmas or come home to a dead tree. Because of […]
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“Not for the faint of festivity, this over-the-top indoor immersive installation turns the holiday spirit all the way up with mesmerizing displays of decorations that shift time and reality. Camp Christmas is Denver’s newest holiday experience, where yuletide traditions of the past and present get merrily mashed together in a massive 10,000-square-foot wonderland. It’s not just […]
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After visiting the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum this week, I was inspired to bring my quilts out of storage: two quilts that my great-grandmother Jean (my father’s grandmother) made for me. The first was gifted to me in 1993, when I was 10. The pieces are all hand-embroidered and each includes the name of one […]
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Recently my ride-or-die/neighbor/friend Linda suggested a day-trip to Golden, Colorado to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Our timing worked out perfectly — we happened to choose a bright and sunny afternoon following a days of snow to make our 1.5-ish hour trek to Golden. The museum is small but mighty! Since we arrived right […]
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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have spent the past week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on a business trip to facilitate focus groups on behalf their orchestra. The Winston-Salem Symphony has a brand new music director, Tim Redmond, and while in town I had the honor of sitting in on the very first rehearsal […]
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Dan and I have been in Winston-Salem, North Carolina all week, with Dan working remotely while I facilitate focus groups for a local arts organization. My friend Mary Beth insisted that we make time for SECCA (pronounced Seeka), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts. The galleries were illuminating, including the eye-widening Owens Daniels exhibition — […]
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Each year, the Fort Collins Book Fest chooses a theme — last year was “The Big Think,” and the 2019 events centered around “Food for Thought.” The Fest invited cookbook authors, hosted “foodie walks,” and offered workshops revolving around tea, chocolate, whiskey and more. I took part in three events at this year’s Book Fest. […]
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