Monthly Archives: August 2003

Every Monday is craft day at the lodge and the talent that’s displayed around the big table amazes me. Amid talking, sharing, learning, and laughing… nimble fingers create beautiful things.  

  August 9, 2003 Rainy Evening Rick is outside, under the awning, cooking up some rib steaks and I’m listening to the patter of rain on the roof. It’s going to be a cozy ‘reading’ evening…just the kind I love! … Continue reading →

The Colorado skies are a constant wonder to me…  

It is said that the Ute Indians believed the hot springs in Pagosa Springs, CO was gift of the Great Spirit. Legend has it that a plague fell on the Utes. All the skills of their medicine men failed to … Continue reading →

Rick just finished carving this bear. He’s going up in the motor home…I can’t part with him.

A thousand years ago, the forests below Chimney Rock’s twin pinnacles were home to ancestral Puebloan people. It’s thought that the reason these ancient people came and settled in this remote site may have been to watch the “lunar standstill”, a … Continue reading →

The moral of this story is “Look before you Leap” ! These little spines went right through my shoe and into my tender instep. Rick rescued me…my hero!  

They call this ‘Chimney Rock’. I do believe I see why! (smile) What an interesting cloud to just happen upon! We want to hike up to the Indian Ruins on the top one of these days.

We spent a perfectly lovely evening at the theater and had dinner afterward with six friends. Well, it was lovely except for one odd happening during the play. I took a non-flash photograph during the performance. (Imagine me doing a … Continue reading →

Two ‘mighty Chipmunk hunters’ work in perfect unison…a picture of teamwork. Of course they never catch any of the critters…but, hey, miracles happen!