Scrapbook

So here it is. The LAST post of pictures from Colorado.



1. Cold Stone ice cream with Sarah. 2. Graffiti in Leadville. 3. Me and Mom after she picked me up from the airport.



4. The twins together, Auntie Jo teaching Mom to play Angry Birds. 5. Sophie in the flowers. 6. Number at Mcalister’s Deli.


7. Coffee with mom. 8. Delicious salad. 9. Original seats inside the Tabor Opera House.



10. Wall décor inside the Silver Dollar Saloon in Leadville. 11. Bumper sticker. 12. Antique china.


13. Old books. 14. Antique bottles in a Leadville shop window. 15. Me. That’s a picture of me.

love, elizabeth

John Denver Was Right

I think these kind of speak for themselves but OMG, you guys, I miss the Rockies already.

love, elizabeth

Breakfast in Leadville

My mom is much more of a breakfast person than I am. But if breakfast was exactly like this every morning…I’d never miss it.

That’s veggie eggs benedict, by the way. And it tasted like heaven.

What’s your favorite way to spend breakfast?

love, elizabeth

Mountain Girl

 

Mom and I drove up to Leadville for a weekend. We had so much fun. I’m not a mountain girl by birth but I married a mountain boy and I think that kind of love for thin air and a big, bright Colorado sun rubs off on a person.

We stayed in a peaceful little motel right on the main street, wildflowers in our window.

I took a lot of pictures of the storefronts. They have such an old, lost look about them, like the old gold and silver mine entrances and overgrown railroad tracks just outside of town. The Tabor Opera House is one of the last remaining opera houses from this part of the country and one of the last Tabor buildings standing. It’s even more beautiful inside but the light in there wasn’t the greatest and the curators aren’t so crazy about flash photography.

That’s 10, 200 feet above sea level. I always forget how it feels to be that high up. A little like floating.

I could spend weeks that high in the clouds. Are you a mountain person?

love, elizabeth

Roadtrippin’

I am FINALLY back from my trip to Colorado and catching up with blogging. If you have been reading, following, commenting, sponsoring, etc., know that I am getting ready to get in touch with you! I seriously took almost 1,000 pictures over the last two weeks and I can’t wait to share (some) with you! Originally, I planned to be all orderly and chronological about it but you know what? I’m not feeling it. So here is the first in a series of random posts in whatever order occurs to me at the moment.

Dad and I took two and a half days to drive from Colorado to Ohio to get me home. I credit my parents with my extreme love of the road trip. I have been on hundreds of long car trips with my family and at this point in my life, I think we just about have it down to a science.

 

I’m also really fortunate to have parents that not only like road trips, but really GET them. Besides the awesome snacks and the car jams and the GPS, my dad also let me pull off the highway any time I spotted a point of interest. Needless to say, we’ve made a lot of stops in the last couple days. More on that next post…

What’s your favorite thing about road trips?

love, elizabeth

“I’d go to the ends of the earth with you…”

my mother said, as we packed the car and headed for the mountains. She’s like that.

We spent Friday and Saturday in Leadville, Colorado and Mom indulged every blogger impulse in my body. “Oooh, look, Mom! Buffalo Bill’s grave! We have to stop…I can blog about that!!!”

“Mom, an antique store! I can blog about that!!!”

“MOM! FRESH ELK JERKY! BLOG!”

And not only did we visit every little nook and cranny I requested, she allowed me to photograph her in every nook and cranny. Here are a few of my favorites.

Mom on Lookout Mountain near Buffalo Bill Cody’s grave.

Mom at the Tennessee Pass café for breakfast.

Mom in the box seats at the legendary Tabor Opera House.

Mom outside of The House with the Eye museum off of Main Street, downtown Leadville. Oh, yeah. And there were some mountains. No big deal.

 

I only took about a bazillion picture so I have TONS more to share. Stay tuned!

love, elizabeth

ps: I miss your blogs! As soon as I’m back in Ohio, expect visits and comments galore.