Back to Sea Level

Family vacation 2023 in Telluride, Colorado, is in the rear view mirror. We are back at home on the creek and the marsh is a beautiful shade of early summer green, but as usual, I can’t resist posting a few random photos of the week we just wrapped up. We’ve had some epic family trips…

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Waterfalls and Water Power

As I previously mentioned, we spent a few hours Monday morning with Grant from Dave’s Mountain Tours exploring the backroads in the mountains outside of Telluride. It was great fun to bounce along those old dirt roads taking in the beautiful scenery and listening to the aspen trees “quake.” Grant wanted to take us off…

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Populus tremuloides

  Catchy title, eh? Kinda reminds me of delirium tremens. I promise I had no intention of writing yet another post on a tree, but here we are. The annual family vacay is this week and this year, we are in Telluride, Colorado. As per usual, everyone is required to do a little happy hour…

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Back to School

We are spending the week in rural south-central Michigan in the tiny college town of Hillsdale. We traveled here to attend one of Hillsdale College’s week-long educational experiences for adults called Hillsdale Hostel. We chose the session called Twentieth Century American History and what an education we are getting! Much of what we have learned…

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