November 29, 2017

 Another sunrise, this time before Jed's class.

 

It was interesting how the camera captured the colors differently when I zoomed in.

November 26, 2017

Catching the sunrise this morning.

November 19, 2017

The light coming into the house late this afternoon was yellow.

This is what greeted me when I stepped outside to take a look.

Colorado is the only state we've lived in 

where you could have clouds like this

and no rain.

November 8, 2017

It was snowing again when I went to bed last night.

Still just a dusting...

but we're hopeful all these dustings are just a warm-up for a very snowy winter.

Also, I really need to get that hammock and umbrella put away!

November 7, 2017

We woke up to our fourth snow of the season!

Again, just a dusting, but we're still pretty excited. :)

This window is in an upstairs loft.  

Our neighbors rebuilt their chimney last fall (I think) and it is really beautiful...

I think it looks like a cupola.

November 5, 2017

The sky was amazing today on our drive home from our church in Boulder.

November 4, 2017

Jed and I went out again this evening - two in a row!  :)

The local museums were free from 5:00 - 8:00 PM and we took advantage of the offer

to visit the Golden History Museum.

Jed was pretty intrigued with this old snow shovel - 

can you imagine shoveling with a wood shovel??

I hope it makes his shoveling this winter seem a bit easier by comparison.  :)

We love the light rail!

An interesting bit of history about the "M" on Lookout Mountain. 

 That's our view of South Table Mountain.

This quilt was pieced by the Ladies Aid Society of the First Baptist Church of Golden in 1887. The sunburst signature quilt is composed of 30 red squares about 14″ to each side. In the center of each square is a white circle surrounded by 17 white diamonds. Key events in church history are written onto the center of each circle while church member names are written on the diamonds. All together, over 500 names appear on the quilt.

Golden history is literally written into this quilt. Another square records Golden’s first bell: The church built a tower for the bell presented by William Austin Hamilton Loveland in 1865. While the date is slightly off (it should be 1867), Loveland offered to give the Baptists a bell if they’d built a tower to house it. The Baptists met the challenge whole-heartedly and the bell finally swung into place on June 17, 1868. As the only bell in town it was put to other uses such as signaling town meetings and fires.    from goldenhistory.org

I had no idea Boppy pillows originated in Golden - how cool is that??!

I also had no idea the designer of the Pullman railroad car lived here in Golden.

We got to bring home a souvenir - a metal disk laser-etched by a machine that was designed and built in Golden! 

November 3, 2017

Jed and I went out tonight to run a couple of errands.

I used to have the full moons noted on my calendar but I didn't do that this year,

and we were flabbergasted at the moon that greeted us -

not only was it full, it was huge and it was golden - a harvest moon!

These pictures are horrible - cell phone again - and it's a little heartbreaking because the moon was so gorgeous.

Moving the camera to the left to get away from the Staples we were parked in front of 

really darkened the sky.

That's Golden in the foreground and Denver in the background, 

with the southern portion of the South Table Mountain mesa separating the two.

A wide swipe to the left reveals the rest of Golden with the Rockies in the background.

The white light on the mountain slightly to the right of center is the School of Mines "M."

November 1, 2017

Jed has a class on Wednesdays to discuss the work he's been doing at home during the week.

We have to leave at 6:45 AM to avoid traffic jams on I-70.

The sun was rising behind South Table Mountain and the sky was so pretty.

Too bad we were taking pictures with a cell phone in a moving car.  :)

It looks like Jed might have captured a shooting star in this shot!