Fur Professional Services
If you’re ever in need of a pair of consultants with a particular point of view, Willow and Frankie are studied up and prepared to help you. Particularly if the engagement involves eating fish, sleeping in the sun, or studying the effects of simply lounging about.
A blue heron contemplates breakfast
Walking by myself downriver along the Uncompahgre River (near Ridgway State Park) this morning, I spied this rather uncommon blue heron, contemplating its breakfast.
Vast wildflower bloom in Crested Butte
The middle of summer, smack dab in July’s midsection, herald the eruption of wildflowers in Colorado. Crested Butte gets an outsized portion of this display, and Annie had planned already to be in that part of the state on the tail end of peak season. The mosquitos, on the other hand, still seemed fully peaked […]
Ellie at Dusk
It’s nice when you capture an image you end up using as your phone’s wallpaper. Lottis Creek campground (there are a few loops close to one another but at different access points) was absolutely lovely. We stayed at site 2 in the Park Cone loop for a week, with a 30a electrical connection. That was […]
Kayaking on Dillon Lake
One of the best parts of camping at Heaton Bay in the White River National Forest near Frisco is its proximity to Lake Dillon. If you can go without utility support, some of the sites have nice water views. If you’re needing electric and water, Loop C is not a far walk, and there’s a […]
The light in our thunderstorms
One thing to note about Colorado weather, is it can be unpredictable, particularly in the mountains. It’s why if you want to hike a 14er, you need to start early in the morning so you can be off the mountain in case a (brief, yet somewhat common) afternoon thunderstorm rolls through. Rifle Gap State Park […]
I’m just going to nap here, thanks
Nothing really beats a snug, comforting space, irrespective of its original purpose.
Cats, meet Airstream
You find yourself in a small fabric carrier being bustled about in the back of an oh-my-god-what-happened-to-our-old-car Ford F-250. And you don’t like it. Such was the predicament Sadie, Willow, and Frankie found themselves this fine spring day. Like prisoners in a lineup, they glanced about nervously as we secured Ellie’s front door and prepared […]
Our first camping spot: Rifle Gap State Park
It was a relief to finally have taken Ellie back to Colorado after our fitful start last month. Now we just needed to remember everything we’d been taught. Thankfully we had presence of mind to video everything for reference. That saved us from an unknown number of problems. Preparing an arrival and departure checklist would’ve […]
Aaaaannnnd they’re off! Oh, um…well, not quite.
The snow is pouring down in Sandy, Utah, and we’re approaching the yellow…no, make that red…light. We’ve had our F-250 (Carl—we’ll explain later) for about a month, and this is the first time he’s been out in the snow with OEM tires. I gently press on the brakes and…we do the (soooo not electric) slide […]