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Snow + aspens

A special day today all of us up on the gondola to see the aspens and a nice amount of snow...gorgeous together...last day the gondola is running until ski season starts so really glad we were able to get up...

XOXO

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Jeeping Buffalo Pass, late summer

  1. It's technically still summer, and warm enough for it, but it sure looks like fall around here...
  2. I had no idea Buff Pass was dirt. And rutted, rocky dirt at that. I suppose you could bring a regular car up here, but I wouldn't want to...
  3. I can't even tell you how much our rocky picnic spot reminded me of being a kid in Colorado...love that feeling of giving my kids the same outdoorsy childhood that I had...
  4. Aspen trees if you hug them are cold. The dead ones are not...
  5. I love how when the leaves fall on pine trees they look like Christmas ornaments...
  6. The leaves are nowhere near their peak...another weekend? Two? I'm not sure we'll drive here again this fall but we'll be checking out the leaves elsewhere for sure...what a beautiful drive Buff Pass is, though...highly recommended...
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Grace in small things, August 3, 2016

  1. Water and some kitchen utensils on the deck...nothing's more fun...
  2. I am loving the friends I'm making here in Steamboat...
  3. My husband volunteering to go to the grocery store on his way home from work whenever I need it...this is nothing new, but so grateful for the help, always...
  4. A walk after the kids went down this evening, me and Newton the boxer...last month when I was doing walks at 8:30 or so it was light the whole way...today I was making it home in the dark...I love how things like the lengths of the days change so gradually and yet also so dramatically...
  5. Beautiful "art letters" from my mom—one for each of the kids and one for me as well. What a delight these pieces of snail mail are...thank you Mom!!

XOXO 

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