On My Run and Happy Friday

I went for a beautiful run today. See the clouds? Moisture in the air. It makes running more fun! And do you see how fall is arriving? The trees are turning and leaves are beginning to blanket the trails.

I hope you have a happy weekend. Thank you for visiting me here!

On My Run

My nephew has been here for most of August to run, logging some beautiful, hilly miles in preparation for his fall cross-country season at school. We've been running with behind him, pointing him in the right direction. It's really been great fun. I've tried to snap a few photos between gasps for breath:

I do love running on the trails here. We'll try to keep it up, even after family leaves next week. Trying not to think about that - we'll miss them. Happy weekend to all of you.
Instagrams by me.

On My Run

Happy new week to you. I took a photo of some aspens I passed while running the other day...

It's so hot and dry here, but so pretty. Despite the lack of moisture, it's a good summer so far! I hope the same for you.

DeClutter Day

Happy Monday, everyone. Our summer is in full swing and we're having so much fun. The outdoors is calling this week too, but Eddie is in camp so it's time to get things done. To that end, I'm so excited that Thursday is our next declutter day! As always, I'm gathering images of spare, beautiful spaces to inspire me...

Hopefully, the humble abode will look a lot like these by the end of the day Thursday (HA!!!). To see my previous declutter day inspirations, search 'declutter day' way up there on the right. I hope you have a great week!
Images: 1. Hey Home interior design in Bolig, Pernille Kaalund photo, 2. Studio MDA, 3. MacDonald Wright on Remodelista, 4. Simon Watson photogragh in AD, 5. Jessica Helgerson Design, photo by Lincoln Barbour, 6. Rue, photograph by Emily Anderson, 7,8, and 9. Bassam Fellows, via Design Milk.

June

Hello! May was very busy, in a good way. June came quickly and we're trying to catch up. The garden is a little unkempt, but I like it...

I hope all of you are well - I haven't been able to visit much. We're off to enjoy the outdoors. I will be back soon!

Beautiful Weekend

Happy week and weekend!

It's been busy so I'm thrilled to be home relaxing tonight, playing a bit with Instagram. What will you do this weekend? We'll go to a VW auto show in Denver. Should be fun. Have a beautiful one, and thank you so much for visiting!

Happy Spring Weekend

I hope you have a beautiful one!

Thank you so much for visiting me here this week and for your comments. I appreciate every one of them!

Instagram photo by me.

Coyote

Happy Tuesday! This beautiful coyote visited our yard this morning.

We hear the coyotes at night in the summer, but rarely see them. Especially in the neighborhood. He certainly was a healthy, fine one. I hope you are having a great day!

Weekend

Happy weekend to you. I'm a little sick, so this is my plan today... I've been reading a lot of Hemingway lately. This is just the latest. Thanks for visiting this week!

Away!

Happy Friday to you! It looked like this across our valley yesterday evening, with a little snow-cloudiness and then the low, setting sun brightening the hills...We leave tonight for a little vacation. I'm looking forward to some warmer weather. I hope you have a happy few days, and I'll see you back here when I return. Thank you so much for visiting this week!

Happy Saturday!

I hope you're having a really fun day.It's beautiful here so we'll get outside soon. Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Happy Valentine's Day!

It'll Be A Robot Birthday

Happy Friday! Eddie's birthday party is tonight. I can't believe he's turning seven tomorrow. Wow. The boys will be tearing apart old radios and things, then building robots with the parts and other weird pieces we've collected. We're drawing our inspiration from these goofy amazing guys on Etsy. My sister even found lots of old binoculars and opera glasses on ebay... Eddie has been planning this party in his mind for months, so I hope it's a success. I'll try to snap photos between helping to screw on arms and wheels. Happy weekend to you and thanks so much for visiting!
1,2,4,and 7 by Reclaim2Fame; 3,8, and 9 by StangMont; 5,10 and 11 by Sally Colby; 6 by Jones RoboWorks.

Weekend Views

There was a marvelous purple light out our back door last night...and we enjoyed lovely views on our snowshoe yesterday...It has been a rough week in our valley. A young boy, a student in Eddie's small school, died in an avalanche while he skied at Vail last Sunday. My heart aches for his family. Our community feels the loss deeply and over 1000 people attended the service to celebrate his happy life Friday. We go on, reminded to live life as fully as this boy did. And we hug our little ones...as often as we can!

Big Snow?

Happy weekend to you. We've just been out skiing. We're expecting big snow this afternoon and we really hope it comes!I hope you get outside this weekend wherever you are. Thanks for visiting!

Sunday Snowshoe and Mountain Lion Tracks

Happy new week! Yesterday, after some snow finally fell on Saturday, we snowshoed on a beautiful trail not far from home. We were the first humans on the trail since the new snow had come down, but not the first animals. We saw numerous little tracks, and the ramblings of one very big something, who we fell quite sure was a mountain lion. You can see the tracks under the tree in the foreground of the first photo, and the second photo is a close up. See how big?! I was so excited! We did not feel in danger - for some reason we felt sure he'd been there before dawn. Also, Eddie was not with us. Perhaps we would have turned around if we were protecting our son. After a 1/2 mile or so, his tracks left the trail and we continued on...I do love being out in nature. I hope you have a great Monday!

New Year's Walk

Happy Tuesday to you. New Year's day we took a lovely, refreshing walk along the river... so I'm off to a good start with the resolutions!
Eddie's wearing his new Xob hat from Santa. He loves it.

Happy New Year! Accomplishments and Resolutions

Happy New Year to you! Thank you so much for stopping by here this year - I've loved reading your comments and clicking over to visit you too. I think it was a good year for most of you - true? Are you excited for 2012? Do you make resolutions? I usually do not, but this year have a few in mind. I am looking back on what I accomplished in 2011, using it to inspire the resolutions for the new year to come. So, here we go...
I will spend even more time in 2012 reveling in our outdoors with my husband and son... I will continue to care for and improve on our home...
I will continue to take care of myself - even better care! In addition to traveling and seeing family, I had a lot of fun training for the half-marathon, so I will set another goal for another race in the fall...and lastly, though this is a BIG one, I will embrace the budget! I'm typically fighting it, upset that there has to be one, but I hope to approach it as an inspiring challenge this year. I have found, since I started the blog, that posting the things I love here helps me "have" them in some way, and helps curb the desire to go overspend on whatever they are.
Now for some truly, truly random images, mostly from the blogs I read, that inspire my resolutions for 2012.
First let me say I will put this photo on my bathroom mirror...She is Amanda Ross-- I love this photo of her. Everything about her in this photo, and article, will inspire me.
Next, I'm laughing. I guess I'm planning to do a lot about the bedroom, because I grabbed these four from the inspiration file without hesitation or thought... Also, I will pay attention to life's good details. I'll focus on the richness of them, the patterns, the textures, add to them, enhance them, take the clutter away from them, really notice them...And finally, back to nature. It does me wonders to spend much time outside soaking it in. I plan to be in nature a lot this year and hope to share more of it with you...Again, Happy New Year, thank you, and I'll see you back here next week!

sources: Amanda Ross from The Coveteur.
Bedrooms: for 1 I need help, 2, 3, 4.
Details 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 I need help, 6, 7 is a line vautrin box sold at auction, 8.
Nature 1 by Rebecca Haas, 2 by Punkin's Patch, and 3 my own.