Two Images from Yellowstone

July 15, 2011

The day before we left the park, Todd and I took two trips to Norris Geyser Basin, north of Old Faithful and south of Mammoth Hot Springs. First we arrived in the morning, just as the photographers were leaving, and we were the only ones on the boardwalk. As I went back to get my [...]

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Motels to Missoula

July 15, 2011

So far on this trip, Todd has arranged almost all the accommodations, including our rental in Missoula. Two places along the way I particularly liked were motels, one in Buffalo, Wyoming, and one in Montana south of I-90. The first, the Z-Bar Motel, graces Highway 16 in Buffalo, Wyoming, on the way to Yellowstone. Todd [...]

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Busy Bee Is All That

July 14, 2011

Todd and I spent the night in Buffalo, Wyoming, at a locally owned motel (more on that in a later post) and had breakfast the next morning at Busy Bee Cafe on North Main Street. It originally opened in 1927, closed down for a few years when the original owners retired, and then reopened recently.We [...]

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Devil’s Tower

July 14, 2011

After eating at Etta’s Place in Sundance, we drove to Devil’s Tower, the first national monument in the United States. I made Todd circumnavigate it with me. There are all sorts of stories about how the tower formed. One says the vertical “lines” in the sides are the marks of a bear, clawing to get [...]

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Etta’s Place in Sundance, Wyoming

July 13, 2011

On the way to Devil’s Tower, we stopped in Sundance, Wyoming, for lunch. Imagine our surprise at finding an upscale restaurant at the site of the old Longhorn Bar, named after Etta Place, the woman who accompanied Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to South America. If you search online for “Etta’s Place,” you’ll find [...]

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Monuments of Stone

July 13, 2011

On our way to Missoula, the first stop on our 12 Cities, 1 Year tour, Todd and I stopped at Badlands National Park, right next to Buffalo Gap National Grassland. In my opinion, we didn’t get to spend nearly enough time at either. After we set up camp near Mount Rushmore, I went back one [...]

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Nice, for Chain Italian

July 11, 2011

My dearest friend, whom I have known since middle school, met me for Italian food in South Kansas City the last week of June. I was excited to see her and to try North Modern Italian Cuisine, but I’m afraid it wasn’t much fun for her. She was supposed to have a temporary crown replaced [...]

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Burnt Ends and High Water

July 1, 2011

On Wednesday Todd and I made our first BBQ pilgrimage in Kansas City, to Arthur Bryant’s original location at 18th and Brooklyn, near the old jazz district. I had been there before—in the late 1980s, I believe, with two friends who soon afterward got married. It was a hot day on Brooklyn, and the warehouses [...]

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Kansas Retro

June 30, 2011
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Burlington Has Its Secrets

June 24, 2011

As we walked up to the library in Burlington, Colorado, this morning, we saw this mysterious sign: No cake pans in the book drop … OK. At first we thought it was one of those ridiculous warnings now common on products: “Don’t submerge this electrical device in water!” “Don’t stab yourself with this knife!” We [...]

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Bison Carpaccio

June 2, 2011

Todd and I frequently eat dinner at Magnolia, a restaurant in Lafayette where a friend of ours womans the sushi bar a couple of nights a week. If there are seats at the bar, we sit and laugh with her and buy her a drink and take her suggestions on the specials. And what better [...]

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Il Posto Pleases, Twice

May 29, 2011

There’s an Italian restaurant along 17th Avenue in Uptown that I truly enjoy. I’ve been there twice, both times sitting on the patio when it was cool enough outside that I started to shiver. This picture was taken from the table closest to the large open window. The server started each of us off with [...]

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Not a Complete Oyster Virgin

May 19, 2011

My food critic friend Denveater loves oysters, and I’ve been bugging her to take me out and introduce me to some. Sunday night we stopped briefly at Ocean Prime in Larimer Square but decamped when we discovered they served 1 type of oyster. One seated at the bar at Oceanaire, we ordered a happy hour [...]

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Tulip Double Exposure, or Not

May 10, 2011

I was out Sunday in extremely uncomfortable shoes, snapping tulips on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. They’re just about done for the year, and although I wished I had gotten there about a week earlier, there were still some beauties left. While I was there, I ran into Eli Vega, the instructor for the [...]

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Gourmet Cupcakes

May 2, 2011

I was tempted to title this post “Weird-Ass Cupcakes” because it seemed appropriate. But then I remembered all my foodie friends and thought I should temper my opinion. I was in Boulder a month or so ago, longing to get the Hot Chocolate Soup from Belvedere Belgian Chocolate Shop, but it was closed by damage [...]

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Shedding My Skin

April 19, 2011

I have a lot on my mind these days. Todd and I are getting ready to sell this house and travel the western half of the United States for a year. It’s not good timing. My father is in assisted living, and my siblings and I have to deal with all that sets in motion. [...]

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Beautiful Brick in Denver’s Ballpark Neighborhood

April 10, 2011

I’ve been so busy lately preparing to sell our house and editing books that I haven’t had much to say on my blogs. I hope you enjoy this picture.

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Delight in Downtown Denver

April 7, 2011

I had a wonderful evening in downtown Denver Thursday night. It was cool out but not cold, and the streets and bars and restaurants were full of animated people. I got off the B at Wynkoop and 15th and sped over to Translations Gallery between 17th and 18th on Wazee. I had been there the [...]

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Nuff Said

April 4, 2011
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Three Movies: America, India, Afghanistan

March 25, 2011

On March 12 I saw so many movies about women, I was beside myself with happiness. It was the Voices Film Festival at the Denver Film Center on Colfax. Although the Denver Film Society has been doing Women + Film at the festival for years, it was the first time Voices has had its own [...]

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From Casa Bonita to Colt and Gray

March 15, 2011

Todd and I visited both Casa Bonita (his idea) and Colt and Gray (my idea) one night in February, and the only other thing that connected them was that I acted like a crazed photographer at both, to the point of annoying Todd (and probably other people). And racing around that way didn’t do much [...]

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Squeaky Bean Satisfies, for a Price

March 2, 2011

After two visits to the Squeaky Bean (one last fall, for brunch, and one the weekend before Valentine’s Day, for dinner), I recommend it for artfully plated, flavorful food. But the middle-class Midwesterner still lurking in me complains that if you spend more than $50 per person, you ought to be stuffed. That’s not an [...]

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Anita Is Both Wrenching and Hopeful

February 22, 2011

The Denver Jewish Film Festival, which ran February 10–20, 2011, always has an intriguing selection of films. The one and only movie I saw this year was Anita, an Argentinian film by director Marcos Carnevale. Anita‘s star, Alejandra Manzo, is an actress with Down syndrome playing a character with Down syndrome whose mother is the [...]

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No Man’s Land: The Women of Mexico

February 16, 2011

Dana Romanoff has been traveling to Oaxaca since 2006, photographing the families left there in the wake of migration to the United States. She went there because she had been following the stories of migrants on the East Coast, and she wanted to find out how their families were doing. I heard her speak at [...]

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The Quiet of Winter

February 13, 2011

Savoring quiet—that’s what I did recently at Walden Ponds/Sawhill Ponds, a gravel mine turned wildlife reserve in east Boulder County. Mine was the only vehicle in the snowy parking lot, around noon on a Friday. Cottonwood Marsh was white, as was the sky. I saw a red-tailed hawk on a power line and an eagle [...]

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