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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Home Mountain

Methodist Mountain

One of the things I love most about where we live is you can literally look out the window and see unlimited opportunities for adventure.  What’s that mountain?  Where does that drainage go?  I wonder if there’s a trail up that?  Everywhere you look there’s something new to explore and enjoy.  I’m tremendously grateful.

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Spring!

I realize my posts haven’t been all that frequent lately.  That’s partly due to the fact that we’ve begun to settle into our lives here in Colorado and while that’s all wonderful and good, the things we’re doing don’t nicely fit into a blog that I’m sharing with the world. And partly because, as mentioned in the previous post, the spastic weather has kept our outdoor activities local, which end up being much like the ones I’ve already talked about in previous posts.  But in the past few weeks the weather has started to warm up, the intermittent snow storms have turned to intermittent rain showers and things are finally starting to turn green around here.  It seems like spring is real.

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