A few more photos from the annual garden tour. The theme this year was urban farms, and we were pleasantly surprised/mildly shocked to see that some of these homes, especially the ones in the Briargate neighborhood, had some serious food growing going on. Briargate takes up a sizeable chunk of the north side, and it's really the epitome of bland, generic surburbia (with apologies to those that live there -- it's just not my cup of tea). The houses are large and close together, yet the gardens we saw maximized every square inch of space to grow crops and even house small livestock. There was one family that had five goats, a pig, and a whole bunch of chickens! And you would never have known it from looking at the front of their house, which was just another big beige Briargate fortress. The backyard was a different story altogether. Bravo! That said, all of these homes also had gorgeous ornamental gardens too, which is what I'm featuring on the blog since none of the vegetable gardens were particularly photogenic. More pictures tomorrow.
08 July 2025
07 July 2025
2025 Garden Tour (Part 1)
On the last Saturday of June I hit up the annual city garden tour with my friend JB. There were about 10 stops on the tour this year. I took a few nice pictures, which I'll share with you over the next couple of days, starting with these.
06 July 2025
Sunday Style!
With apologies to the wearer for the unflattering angle, what an appropriate sartorial choice for the garden tour (especially since were in a neighborhood called Old Farm). Cute strawberry printed overalls, just right!
05 July 2025
Old Farm
There's a small neighborhood called Old Farm a few blocks north of where I went to high school. For some reason people here tend to pronounce the it with emphasis on the first word: OLD Farm. Isn't that odd? I never knew how it got its name until last Saturday, when my friend JB and I did the annual city garden tour, and several of the stops were in Old Farm. I guess I never noticed the actual old farm before! Ha! Anyway, it's cute, quiet and originally sprung up probably in the late 1960s like the adjacent and much larger neighborhood, Village Seven, where I lived. We saw some great gardens on the tour and I'll share some pictures over the coming days.
30 June 2025
Last But Not Least
Returning to my recent snaps of Colorado College, here's Palmer Hall, which you last saw in this post. Tomorrow is theme day, and hopefully I'll be able to come up with something, but no promises.
29 June 2025
Sunday Style!
Super fun, Pride themed nail art on a patron that I came across at the Kamayan Hideaway last week.
28 June 2025
The Big Picture
The last couple of days I showed you some details of Shove (rhymes with grove) Chapel at the Colorado College. I thought you might like to see the whole church, so here it is. It's one of the prettiest ones in town. If you'd like to know more about it, click HERE.