This Old House

Want to buy a classic late Victorian/American Foursquare home on Wood Avenue? Be prepared to shell out a ton of money! This 5,984 square foot beauty, built in 1890 and complete with the white picket fence, is currently under contract for $1,640,000. Holy cannoli! Oh well, a girl can dream, right?

Busy

It's springtime, hooray! This means my garden is happily abuzz with busy bees. Here's one hard at work in our front yard.

June 2026 Theme Day: Sky

Well I took an unannounced break from the blog all of last week. It just sort of happened, I didn't plan to go AWOL! I was on "staycation" and busied myself with all kinds of projects around the house and garden. The weather was rainy for several days on end and that made it difficult to take any pictures, then I was scurrying to catch up on outside projects when the sun finally came out. So basically, I didn't have any pictures to share here. Anyway, I just realized that today is the first day of June, so that means it's Theme Day! This month the theme is sky. I did a little digging in my archives and there were lots of photos that fit the bill, but I thought this one was a standout. It was taken on January 29, 2021, and it sure looks like I was standing in the parking lot of our downtown library to get this awesome view of the Peak.

For more takes on the theme, check out the City Daily Photo portal HERE. Enjoy!

Sunday Style!

Last few style images from Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend. Hope you've enjoyed this series!

A Little Late to the Party

Seen a few days ago on Uintah heading west under the interstate. I must have driven this route a hundred times since the first of the year. Either I'm a completely oblivious driver (I hope not!) or someone scrawled this message only recently. Better late than never, I suppose.

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A more or less life sized statue inspired (apparently) by early residents of Colorado Springs. I don't think they represent actual historic individuals. You can find it on Tejon Street a little south of Colorado. I have no idea what it's called but I can tell you that the lantern works.

Alamosa (Part 5)

Here are the last couple of shots from this short series on our day trip to Alamosa last week. The mountain above was captured from the passenger seat as Pat sped down Highway 160, so I'm surprised it came out as well as it did. As you can see, there's a paucity of snow on the mountains here, either. Sigh. Below is a sign outside of Walsenberg. I actually took it on the way to Alamosa, not on the way home, but forgot to share it first. Walsenberg only has about 3,000 residents and I think it's a very cute little town.