Early Fall snow

Mt. Hayden (14,000 + feet ) from Snowmass.
I don't think either of us can ever get enough of that blue sky... nothing like it anywhere.

Mt. Sopris in Carbondale at 13,953 ft.

OMG! Snow on the ground on September 27 at 6600 feet!

Can't say I've ever seen this before.
Can you say Global Warming?

Yellow cat is back!

Yeah!  Yellow cat survived last winter and is back again to do battle between the window panes with Sven and Gunnar.  This will be interesting.

Ruedi Reservior

Snow on the mountains and the leaves are just barely starting to change.  Look Ma!  No clouds!  This is what we call a "Bluebird" day.

First day of Fall Time for a fire!

We don't have a shredder so we burn our sensitive papers.

First bear of 2013, maybe the one and only?

He hung out here all day, munching on berries, fallen apricots, what not.  Looks like a yearling to us, very fat and healthy with a tan colored nose.  If we see him regularly, we'll give him a name.  Bear activity is way down from the previous year.  Maybe this yearling got ousted from his hunting grounds and came down here? 

Bruce on his government funded egg.

"Getting my tax moneys' worth"

Maybe if I sit on it long enough it will hatch gold?...

skunked

Usually jammed on this day of the year, the Snowmass Village Mall was basically empty.  The Snowmass Wine Festival had been held at this location since its' beginning but they moved the venue so the town is empty.  No balloons for the niteglow because of all the rain.  I was told that the hot air balloons can't get wet because they can't fly.
There's always next year.

A visit from Bruces' sister Donna

Beautiful day at the top of Independence Pass.  Don't we three look happy?  It was probably the best weather I've ever seen up there.  We hit the jackpot!

New update on the "strange and weird"

Last year I posted a picture of this very strange and weird place on the other side of the continental divide.  Looks like whomever is responsible for this added  a few new dolls. 
We took Donna, Bruce's sister, over the divide, had lunch in Leadville, stopped at Camp Hale where the 10th Mountaineers trained for cold, snowy, ski training for WWII, and stopped in Vail so she could compare Aspen to Vail.  Aspen won!!  Yeah!  We have history here, Vail doesn't.

Dog day at the pool

Every year, the Aspen Recreation Center (ARC) allows dogs to swim in the pool the day before they drain it for the season, then refill it.  All the dogs have a great time and get along just fine.  All species, all sizes.
I'm going to get Bruce into the lap pool and jacuzzi this week.

One Cataract Down

Kids...wear sunglasses so this doesn't happen to YOU!  Robbie, are you listening?