It's Spring

 

It's springtime in the Rockies

Corgi deep

Powder day on Aspen Mountain- and in Wagner Park

Morning romp

Blue Pulik (see? two noses?)



Backlit Pulik (still two of them- really even though all you see is 4 feet) They will be 2 years old next month and the dreads are getting longer and longer....

Running up to the Studio- cold this morning... Duff keeps up with the hell boyz just fine thanks.

froggie

What's that you got boyz?





Duff thinks it might be something he wants too...



Purple Froggie- a present from Sadie.


Haha, Pulik win...

House guest

Yesterday was one of those perfect winter days in Colorado.


Sadie is here for the weekend.


She likes her vacation home....

Boxing Day?

It's way past boxing day..


But the Pulik don't know that...


Duff is a little skeptical about this early morning play time...



It might be fun..


Or not...


In the end the Puli Bros. keep the game to themselves.

Full Moon

A Full Moon on snow- bright enough to ski by.

Purple Haze

Sunset was lovely last night.


Looking up the Crystal River Valley


But the reflected light was probably the best of all...


Soft cotton candy sunset.....

Holiday elk

For Christmas
The Elk

Come walking

Frost

drive to Denver

Last Friday I drove to Denver. The scrub oak has already turned and the leaves are starting to turn on the Aspens; but above tree line it was snow.

A good 4 inches or more of snow.

Spring?

Springtime in the Rockies.

Get your licks

The snow is hard enough to run on and , apparently, also perfect for doggie snowcones. Everybody is eating snow.

blue mountain green sage

Kandinsky didn't lie. Sometimes when the morning fog is thick enough the mountains turn blue.

Spring thaw is really starting and the sage brush is starting to appear. This is probably the best time of year to walk through the sage. The snow is crusty enough to support your weight. It's too cold for bugs (like ticks- ticks love sage) and you have paths between the brush. Once the snow melts it will be much harder to pick your way through the scrub and cactus.

wind

Sunday night and Monday morning we had non stop wind. This made a hard crust on the snow and some pretty spectacular patterns in the drifts.

Beat the Devil

They've finally found an appropriate toy. It's a little stuffed squeaky red devil.

Walking on water

The snow has a hard crust on it so the Hellboyz can now run across the meadow without sinking in. Fun for them- a little harder on me.


Of course the favorite game of spinning with an old sock as pivot point hasn't stopped it's just that the playing field has increased.

Enough already?

Ginny may just have decided she's had enough snow.... we had another 3 inches last night. Our biggest snow months are ahead of us- February and March. I need a bigger plow. Heck, I need a bull dozer.....

Squeaky balloon snow

It will come as no surprise that yesterday we got more snow. It's cold enough to sound like rubbing the outside of a balloon when you walk on it. It's light and dry and gives that silky swish swish sound under skis.


Just a little 1-2" dusting as you can see by Ginny's roll in the new stuff. It doesn't seem like anyone minds being outside in the stuff except me? I have shoes and I get cold feet- they have paws and don't seem to mind in the least. In fact they like eating snow more than drinking from the water bowl. I think Ginny got into this habit at the Puppy mill and she'll just push along rubbing the side of her face through the powder with her mouth open scooping up snow, licking snow, eating snow.


That doesn't account for the wind however, the drifts can be 3-4x as high. We get a lot of wind up here.


The sunset was crisp and beautiful as usual.

It's supposed to get warmer over the weekend- into the 30's. We'll see if that actually happens.

Winter sunset

Sometimes when the alpenglo hits the ridge you just feel like you're inside a Frederick Remington painting....

... or an N.C. Wyeth....