Boulder: The “Happiest” Place in the Country
My city scores high on the happiness index Walt Disney World may market itself as “The Happiest Place on Earth,” but I live in a real place that scored at the top of the American heap when it comes to residents’ personal happiness. Yesterday, “CBS Sunday Morning” broadcast a segment called “The Pursuit of Happiness,” the leadoff [...]
An Afternoon Ski Getaway Just Up the Road
Good snow, gorgeous sky, bright sun and no lines cure cabin fever Colorado’s Front Range was in a deep freeze during the first part of the week. Record sub-zero temperatures, treacherous roads and low-hanging gray clouds kept a lot of people inside, despite six or seven inches of cloud-soft snow on Sunday and Monday. By Wednesday, [...]
Staycationing on Independence Day
We don’t tend to go anywhere on Independence Day Weekend, but a lot of people come to Boulder, as well as Denver and the Colorado Mountains. Boulder celebrates its Sesquicentennial this year, with a ceremonies and patriotic music at Chautauqua Park. It is capped off with a great ground show and spectacular fireworks at the [...]
One Colorado Vacation Planner Excludes Boulder
En route back from Hawaii (more posts from that trip to come), I picked up a copy of the “Colorado Summer Vacation Planner 2009″ (top right) at Denver International Airport this morning. A bit spacy after a full day on the Big Island and a red-eye nonstop flight from Kailua Kona International Airport, I thumbed [...]
Staycation for the Birds
Non-migrating avians have been bellying up to our heated birthbath and flocking around our feederA flock of robins (below) has all but taken over the birdbath. The bird feeder atop a pole stuck into the ground attracts smaller birds (below) until a (relatively) large flicker chases them off. Squirrels patrol the snow (below), picking up [...]
Summer Waning in Beautiful Boulder
Colorful plantings in Boulder’s pedestrian zone attract photographers Tens of thousands — probably more like hundreds of thousands — of visitors come to Boulder, CO, every year: vacationers en route from Denver to Rocky Mountain National Park, parents of University of Colorado students, fans of CU (not UC, but CU) football and other teams, scientists [...]
Boulder Celebrates the Fourth in Style
Close-to-home entertainment, music and great fireworks on Independence Day We rarely go far for any holiday, because Boulder knows how to celebrate. My husband and I, often with friends, have have cobbled together our own Fourth of July traditions from the city’s many options. For years, a goup of us would meet at Chautauqua Park [...]
Time Travel in Colorado
It was Friday afternoon, two days after the big storm, before I finally got around to digging out my car sufficiently to go to the supermarket, and I probably wouldn’t have done it yet if we weren’t having guests on Christmas Eve — and there was cooking and baking to be done. The nearby King [...]
A Very Quiet Town
It started snowing in Boulder sometime between 6:00 and 7:00 this morning. Gorgeous snow: flakes as soft as powdered sugar that fell straight down, without blowing or drifting, throughout a temperate day and into this rather mild evening. By 3:30 this afternoon, when I was heading for the post office (five days before Christmas, of [...]
Perfect Places
The lead sentence of today’s New York Times “36 Hours” Friday travel feature reads: “A boarding pass to Sydney should come with a warning label: Beware, this city will have you questioning the quality of life in your hometown. Sydney has managed to skim the best parts of other cities and swirl them into a [...]
