after the rain

In my yard yesterday evening.

Some of those buildings you see in the distance are downtown Denver.  The furthest away, toward the right.  The nearer ones are the Tech Center.  Beyond that are the mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park - there is too much haze and smog right now to see them.

You can click these photos to enlarge them.

fun and silliness

Julie and I tried to take a nice picture of us together with each other.

But we just kept looking silly.

Maybe one of us more than the other.  Ahem.

Or not...

Finally, we just gave up.

i'm baaaaack

I had a marvelous time at the conference! I learned a lot, gleaned a lot, gained a lot. I have better direction and clarity for my book and for my life. It was most excellent!

The downside was that there was some kind of crazy firewall or something on their wireless and so I could get online to look at blogs, but I could not post or comment. But here I am.

I an very tired, so for now I will just show you some pictures.

The beautiful Angela Hunt and Nancy Rue. Sometimes known as Nangie.

Kathryn Mackel, Angela Hunt, Nancy Rue and Alton Gansky

If you have not read their books, you should. Kathy writes Chillers and supernatural stuff. Angie writes concept fiction, (I think that's what they call it). You never know what you're going to get, but it's always great! Nancy writes a lot of books for Tween girls, but also some wonderful adult books. Al writes speculative fiction with a sci-fi kind of shading to it.

Here I am surrounded by great talent and genuinely kind and beautiful people.

Being in a conference with these people anywhere would be a blessing, but it was all the better for the beautiful location.

hair

It hasn't been this short in a LOOONG time!

growing up in colorado

We haven't been to the mountains in a few years.  Every summer I want to go and we don't seem to get around to it.

First photo is a church in a small town I lived in beneath the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.  I loved living beneath The Blood of Christ.

The next photo is of my favorite mountain pass.

My parents and I on a fishing trip.  Going up to a mountain lake is one of my favorite things to do!

One time my mom took my sister and me up to a little lake and stream area with our sketchbooks and we all sat around and drew.  Drawed?  Made drawings.  

A photo of the Sangre de Cristos.

There is a photo of me standing above my hometown.  I'm not pregnant, the wind is blowing up my shirt.  Love the acid-wash jeans!

This is why I love Colorado!

more of me in pictures

I know you may not want to see any more of this stuff.  But its fun, and its my birthday week, so I get to do whatever I want.  That's my rule.

I found these questions somewhere else, but the rules were the same as in the last post.  I had to find the answers on Photobucket and only use the first page.  I cheated on Beryl, though.  I clicked through a couple of pages.  But its my birthday week, so I can if I want.

What is your nickname?

What is your favorite smell?

What is your favorite drink?

What is your favorite animal?

What is your favorite dessert?

What is your bad habit?

What is your grandmother's name?

What is your favorite book?

What is your favorite color? (it's a toss-up)

What is your favorite food? (but not raw!)

What is your last name? (one of these)

What was your first job?

How old will you be on your next birthday? (tomorrow)

Where would you like to travel?

What is your favorite place?

What are your favorite objects?

sisterly love

1985, or so.  

Every picture I found of us she had that same expression on her face.  Could it be because I was only nice to her when a camera was around?

Here we are, both too young for grimacing, back in 1968.  Although she was no monkey.

I have a memory of my dad telling me that we were going to pick up a monkey.  I was terribly disappointed when it ended up being nothing but a baby.

i love snow!

Same tree, more snow! This is out our front door:

This is out our kitchen window:

white christmas

from my back yard

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