Weekend Adventure

Saturday morning, after Barbora (14) took the Mazda for a few laps around the parking lot in back of my work (she's learning to drive, and a stick shift at that) we headed for our cabin near Allenspark, at 8,100 feet ASL. It was cloudy and some light rain fell, but around 2pm the sun came out and we took a short hike to Cabin Creek, which is north over a ridge from our place. The temperature was mild and the sweet, earthy forest smells made us happy.

That evening we played cards and read by the woodstove. In the night I was awoken by a series of thumps, looking out the window I saw that everything was white and that the thumping was caused by wet, heavy snow falling from the trees.

In the morning we hiked to the nearby lake and back through the forest.

The photo album of the weekend is here.

Back in Boulder, the sky was gray but there seemed to be more color in the trees. I took photos out the front and back windows of our house, to convey the feeling of fall that is all around us here.