Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

After church and before running kids to various places Sunday afternoon, Jerry and I made a quick dash to the Estes Park Wool Market. It was a beautiful day and fun to just be alone together for a short bit before he was away for the week again.

I picked up two skeins of super soft alpaca yarn, a scarf and a hat are my thoughts at the moment, I think I should have got two of the camel colored skeins tho…..

Two pictures of the Stanley Hotel close out my post today.

Hope the rest of your week is sweet, we have wildfires here again, at the moment it’s quite hazy and smells smokey from the Big Meadows Fire at my house and Jerry is just outside of the evacuation zone of the Black Forest Fire. It must be summer!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Moose! These are actually 2 different moose. I took these pictures on the far side (from home) of Rocky Mountain National Park in an area called Kawuneeche Valley you can see a webcam of the area here. You almost always see elk here and very often see moose.

Also, here is a rainbow I saw last night, just because it’s pretty.

Hope your week has been a good one so far.

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Trail Ridge Road is open, or it was. It was closed today because of new snow. I love to get up there when the snow is as deep as possible! It was a very nice drive which was part of a very nice day, and as you can see there was lots of snow. The poles you see are markers for the snow plow drivers.

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

A few more photos from our Mother’s Day drive. There has been snow in the high mountains a few times since then and probably even some this evening.

Hope your week has been a good one so far!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

I’m not sure where this past week has gone, it was a crazy week I do know that. I hope everyone who celebrates Mother’s Day had a good one. I enjoyed a very nice day but we’ve been quite worried about a mom in our family who’s been in the hospital and that was on all our minds.

These photos are from a drive we took on Mother’s Day. We traveled up above Boulder. You can just see the twisty road we took at the bottom right, above the stadium, in the second photo. You can get a glimpse of Denver from up here too – see the second to last photo and the last in which I’ve ‘zoomed’ in on Denver from the same spot.

More next Wednesday and hopefully a few more posts between.

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Jerry and I took a relaxing Sunday drive this weekend. I always think watching sailboats on the lake is relaxing, I did a lot of that (watching sailboats) at the lake in Michigan. These sailboats are quite a bit larger, so is the lake, actually it’s a reservoir.

Grey skies have been a theme this week and today has been very wet with some pretty loud thunder. Things are getting quite green – finally.

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

I sat here and knitted Monday evening while the boys were at Tae Kwon Do.

Peaceful relaxation!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

Snow in the Park (Rocky Mountain National Park that is) actually there is even more than you see in these pictures.

The 15-ish inches of snow here at home from last week had all melted by Sunday, just in time for Monday’s snow storm this week. We only got about 8 inches this time which is melting quickly.

I don’t really know all of the plants in this yard yet, I could tell you all about the ones that used to be next door having lived with those for 10 years, but I’m not sure what these bushes are. The squirrels are really enjoying them today.

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

We’ve had snow! Lots of it. Somewhere between 12-16 inches altogether. It’s melting fast.

Ethan loves it. Me too!

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Rocky Mountain Wednesdays

We took a short drive to enjoy the beautiful weather on Easter Sunday. We haven’t had skies this blue since and the mountains have received quite a bit of new snow. It should be sunny and warm again this weekend, maybe I’ll get out for some snowy pictures for next week.

Hope your week has been a good one so far!

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