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ShalomSeasons

Alone again. I see the silence still has a place for me. - Robert Sund

the seasons change and so do I

ShalomSeasons describes my all-season sojourn in the Colorado high country at our family cabin named Shalom. I continue to add insights about living alone in an isolated, snowbound cabin as well as weather updates, photos of scenic Taylor Park, and more. Scroll down this page to see my occasional blog posts in which I am experimenting with writing down some of my thoughts; the Day to Day page documents general happenings at the cabin.

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Color My World ...

Today is the Autumnal Equinox, the first day of fall. The colors came a bit early this year and are fading already. We were blessed to wi...

Colorado Day

The Centennial State recognizes its admission to the union in 1876 on August 1 each year. Joyce and I celebrated Colorado Day with a hike...

Midsummer Blues in the Morning After Rain

Rain has come after a prolonged dry spell and the flowers are responding in a beautiful way. Mostly blue for now; reds and yellows come l...

The Green Time

Today is the longest day of the year, with last night the shortest. Around here this day signals the great greening of of the landscape. ...

and so it begins again

After a couple of weeks away to let the rest of the snow sort of melt, I arrived back at Shalom to start the new year. It was about this ...

They Sing Anyway

Days grow longer. Snow melts a little. Light on Ice Mountain lingers a long while in the evening. Such is the day, the season. Time. Snow...

Signs of Spring

Spring started about a month early this year, with an extended warm spell. While there still remain two and a half feet of snow at Shalom...

Treasure on Italian Creek

Four friends found a great fortune today. Stephen, Art, Rod, and myself made the sixty mile round trip via snowmobile from the south end ...

Actual Super Bowls

Several of us took advantage of a run of great weather to travel over Napoleon Pass between the old mining towns of Tincup and Pitkin on ...

Life Leaves Tracks ...

... from darkness into light. Click on the first image to start the photo essay.

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