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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Casual

Ah, fall in Colorado.  Seeing the days slowly getting shorter and feeling the nights gradually getting cooler. Saying goodbye to the hiking and biking of summer and anticipating the skiing of winter.  Time to downshift, kick back, and take it slow while nature works on changing its pallet from green and gold to green and white.  

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Uno Mas

We’ve been having what can rightfully be described as a spectacular fall season in Colorado.  Weeks of crisp, clear evenings and cloudless bluebird days with high temperatures in the 70s.  While the leaves are gone from the aspens, the cottonwoods and birches in the valleys are all brilliant shades of yellow and orange. 

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