Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category

it’s me again!

Posted on June 1st, 2018 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on it’s me again!

Wow-I’ve been gone from this space for almost three months! I’m not sure where the time went, but our days have been chock-full. I’ll just work my way back here slowly, because if I try to do more than that, I’ll never get anything posted. Or, I’ll end up with a novel. Actually, I might […]

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salt and sea

Posted on June 27th, 2017 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

Friday the kids and I drove to Wilmington with our friends Linda, Nick, and Sophie to spend the weekend at the beach. Wrightsville Beach was where I took the kids when we first moved to NC, and we hit that first, staying till dark, playing in the waves and filling our swimsuits with sand. The […]



things we never saw in colorado

Posted on June 7th, 2017 by mountain girl  |  5 Comments »

A luna moth! I came across this one while walking near our house the other day. A male anole lizard, puffing up its pink dewlap. It must have been feeling aggressive toward us. Magnolias. A five-lined skink. This one has a long tail, but Cash spotted one under our truck with a tail shorter than […]



our north carolina life

Posted on April 14th, 2017 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

So we made the jump–sold our home, found a rental house, packed up, and moved–all in the month of March. Our new life is about as different as could be, but little by little we are finding our way and carving out a life here. My Etsy shop is finally open again,  our fridge is […]



leaving colorado

Posted on March 20th, 2017 by mountain girl  |  8 Comments »

We’re moving! The past month has been fast and furious, and we can hardly believe it ourselves, but we are bidding Colorado adieu for a new life in North Carolina. I’ve probably never mentioned how much I love Colorado (har har) and the Rocky Mountains, and our sweet, sweet home…so when David first looked into […]