{local love} chautauqua park

things i love: being outside. nature. hiking. mountains.

places i love: chautauqua park. in boulder. fifteen minutes from our apartment. we get up there as often as possible and every time it's a unique experience.

{please excuse the fuzzy iphone pics!}

{weekender} pitkin

one of the best things about living where we do now is that we are only four and a half hours from one of our very favorite places on earth: pitkin. we headed out on thursday afternoon to spend a long weekend in our little ghost-town-away-from-home.
we didn't do too much; a little hiking here and there, a little visiting with friends, friday morning coffee and brunch with the entire town.

{pictures from our hike + a brave buck in town}

on saturday we spent the day wandering around crested butte. we shopped, coffee-ed, and played with random puppies. we got hit hard by a quick cold mountain rain and took a beer break in a little pub before meeting A's family at slogar for dinner...

i always want more time in pitkin. time stands almost perfectly still there and the stars are bigger and brighter than you could ever imagine. a long weekend is never going to be enough. but we'll be back. 

{local love} exploring louisville

today we woke up in our empty apartment and decided to go for a walk. we found the bank and the post office {both walking distance!} and then wandered into the sweetest little neighborhood. we day-dreamed about which adorable victorian house we would buy one day. we walked and walked and finally ended up in historic downtown louisville, where every saturday through october they have a farmers market with locally-grown organic produce, food trucks, and live music. we got the yummiest breakfast burrito ever and drank colorado-made soda. then we stopped at an old-timey candy shop down the street and got some lollipops for the long walk home.