Opening Day

Around here there are certain distinctly recognizable events that mark the changing of the seasons.  Spring is the explosion of wildflowers in the mountains.  It’s fall when the surrounding hillsides are covered in aspen gold.  And you know its summer when highway 50 is jammed with campers with out-of-state plates.

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Fat for the holidays

It’s a secret we don’t normally share with out-of-staters but one of the things we love most about Salida is its mellow climate.  Typically in winter, while the mountains — the mountains we can see from our living room window — are getting buried in snow, down here in the valley we’re basking in sunshine.  Don’t tell anyone.

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