Snowmachining at Maroon Bells Christmas Eve

Edgar, the elf on the shelf

He decided to do a face plant into the tree!

Snowmass' 50th anniversary

 There's new coaster on Snowmass.  You access is from Elk Camp and it's a blast.  Rode it today twice and well worth doing.

     

Another Kitty pic

Bruce had a shoulder replacement on Nov. 8th.  We are 2 weeks out and Rascal, and believe me he is a Rascal, loves being next to his "person".  Rascal is a toy thief, food monger and his name suits him just fine.
This pic shows Bruce with his sling and ice pack machine on. 
It's been sooo much fun!

Ever get tired of kitty pics?

Favorite hang out place

Best Buds and sofa friends - Rascal and Prince

Sven and Gunnar's final resting place

Gunnar is on the left in a pile; Sven on the right scattered. 

Cessna was placed at this very same tree at the Maroon Bells.  We can visit all three kitties at the same time!

Prince (red) and Romeo (brown)

 Will someone pleeze open this can of food?

Prince is only 3 weeks older than Romero and look how big he is!
We may have a monster kitty on our hands.

It's snowing and it's sticking at only 6624 altitude!

Can't wait to see it in the morning!
I haven't seen snow October 1st to stick in Aspen, yet alone Basalt.
Global warming?

New lap cat in less than 20 hours!

His birth name was Lucas.  For now we just call him little brown boy.

The other family addition, birth name Jimmy, is still a little shy. 

More pics sure to come! 

You know it's Fall when you see these guys

A bear in our apple tree

He ate them all gone!

Our elipse

Strange reflections through the glass

Last of the ALaska pictures

 The pipeline.

Our ride - Seward to Denali to Fairbanks.

Female grizzlys in Denali are mostly blonde. Here's one with two cubs

Not up close and personal but at least we saw one!  Sharon wasn't coming home until she saw a grizzly so I guess we can come home now.

A sunny day to see Denali

Very, very lucky day.  It rained 43 days straight and we get this!  It's so beautiful it actually looks a little fake, or photo shopped.  It is not fake or photo shopped.  I don't know how to do that.

Anchorage AK

Hubbards glacier

Yukatat Bay is just southwest of this awesome glacier.  Beautiful weather but we couldn't get any closer than this because.....we were churning up silt!!!

No bears but they've been here within the last 12 hours

Our first glacier and ice berg

Ketchican crab "fishing" and Alaskan bumper stickers

Getting ready for the safety at sea seminar on the Mariner

All ready for our new family next month!

Lots of bears today!

Looks like bear season is upon us!

Basalt balloon glow

Awesome! 12 balloons present!
Nice 12th anniversary present.

Historical way to launch a boat, Bristol RI

FRC is in the background.

Red, White and Blue street lane markers, Bristol, RI

Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, RI America's Cup "Defiance" on display

Ms. Liberty

Happy man on his boat - enroute from Charleston to Rhode Island

It takes three grown men how long to pick a wall paint color?

Answer:

An hour and a half splitting hairs to get to three samples.

Go figure.  I had to excuse myself. 

This color has red in it, this one has green, this one has blue......

They all looked the same to me.

My best peony ever!

Independence Pass

Thigh deep in the snow!
The snow apparently wasn't as packed down as I thought.

12 hours later...

Snowplows were running.  Everything was gone by noon.

May 17th snow fall at 6600 feet elevation. Basalt, CO.

10:15 pm.  We'll see what's there in the morning.  They are calling for lots more.

Went fishing and got skunked

Leaving Friday to come home.  Just enough time to enjoy some time just chillin.

Happy SCUBA man

Welcome to Cozumel - our first time on THIS island!

 This is the closest we're going to get to elephants!  Had to nix Africa due to time and cost restraints.