Hail

Colorado, I love you in all ways, except for the hail.

We also got over two inches of rain in an hour, thus flooding our crawl space. The fans and dehumidifier are still running!

On a better note, I ran the Bolder Boulder with two fabulous friends - Amy and Susanne. Wonderful race, as usual. 50,000+ people running a race is a lot of great energy!

Amy & I

Susanne & I, not sure who the 742 photo bomber is!

Out with the old...

...in with the new tree. Unfortunately we lost a big tree in the front yard last year. We believe it to be an ash tree, and the ash bore likely got it. Get your ash trees treated people!  It's not that expensive and worth the effort to save the tree. We wish we had known you could do this a few years ago. Trees are so precious in Colorado...

Tom took it down yesterday and a new Imperial Locust will be planted on Thursday. The front yard looks bare, hopefully the locust grows relatively quickly.

Old friends.

Trails, that is. My run at Bear Creek yesterday took me down a trail that has been closed since the big floods last September. As I ran along the creek, many of the trees are still alive, but many are not. Some of the smaller ones are brittle and I think they met their demise under tens of feet of water. But many of the large ones, that still had their tops above the high water line, will live on. And I'm glad.

Almost all of the trails are back open, save for just a few. I'm waiting on those old friends as well.

This is the cottonwood trail, one of many back open...

Consider it Sprung.

Spring, that is. Blossoms abound in our flowering trees. After last years late freezing weather (an altogether too common occurrence along the front range of the Rockies), our apple is ready to produce some fruit this year!

One birdhouse, cheap summer rent, immediate availability. 

Bring on the weekend!