Villanelle For A Winter PassedKeeping is darkness and winter, he insists ( Read more... )

Texas and Kansas threatened to go on forever…. But after 24 hours of driving and one winding 11,000 foot pass, we’ve finally arrived in the Rockies! Winter Park is a cute town with snow on the ground and Christmas lights covering all of the trees. Towering peaks loom on all sides, begging us to clip into our snowboards immediately. And answer ( Read more... )

My birthday, Friday, was also James' and my last day working on the farm! James and I decided that 7 weeks was quite enough, and as much as we love Colorado, we’re headed back east until the winter ( Read more... )

I'll spare you the details.

We spent the longest day of the year-summer solstice-in what must be one of the most beautiful cities in the country: Telluride. Telluride is set in a box canyon that dead ends into a towering, snow-capped mountain with a snow-melt waterfall plummeting down its side. From the tiny, funky downtown (which basically is the whole town), you are ( Read more... )

This weekend we did one thing right: we went DOWN Anasazi’s descent. Holy cow did we go down ( Read more... )

No really, my mom kicked butt on a mountain bike in Moab last weekend. Not to mention Jim, who did not pass up a single rocky descent (or ascent, for that matter) on our Moab adventure. Check out our pictures (and don’t be fooled by all of us lying on the rocks with the bikes thrown aside... we worked hard!) Moab, Canyonland, and Arches Pictures ( Read more... )

Remember the ducks we took to the pond? Wednesday afternoon I found them half an acre from the pond, honking at the chicken pen trying to get back in! They'd hiked through the woods and come back to their first home, forgoing the pond in favor of splashing around in the chicken feeders. We spent the next few days in various combinations of herding ( Read more... )

The Saturday night party was an experience that took James and I back in time to, well, before we were born. When we walked up to the house where the party was, past the llamas, and approached the smiling, dancing crowd on the porch, my first thought was, "My god have we gone back 3 decades? Are my long haired, bell bottomed, 20-something parents ( Read more... )