These images are from a photo safari I undertook this week in Jefferson, Colorado, in between intense empathy and hand-wringing.

Our fence posts seemed to be a set of crosses with a message: Spring is here, the tomb is empty, and resurrection, rebirth and new growth are real.

Scrabble is a great game for COVID-19 quarantining. (And I finally won.)

A mountaintop picnic in Colorado’s Pike National Forest sparkled with nature and pineapple mimosas.

My lost loved ones were in this sky, whispering a gossamer goodbye.

The sky over South Park Valley demands a haiku today, the first day of NaHaiWriMo 2020.

Haiku inspired by a coming storm in the Colorado Rockies.

“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” said the Grill-Meister as he fired up the outdoor burner to cook bacon in 5° weather.

A clarion call for mindfulness: what if every day was new year’s day?

Autumn is all around us at Little House in the Rockies, and a haiku came naturally, like the fall colors.

Gorgeous fall colors and a mountain landscape – so easy to create a haiku from that inspiration!

The fall equinox is a perfect time to be in Central Colorado – the cool air, the fall colors, the azure sky… life is good.

Chipmunks posing in Park County, CO make for peaceful pictures.

I’d like to be on that porch at Little House in the Rockies, looking at that sunset, feeling the mountain air, shivering just a little.

A change of scenery brings mountain wildflowers, a fire in the fireplace and a haiku about the mesmerizing nature of flames.

Haiku saluting the Purple Fringe alongside the abandoned track at the top of Boreas Pass at the continental divide.

The Tanja Britton blog has a great post about Pike’s Peak.

Wildfires abound in Colorado right now. Nearest to us here at Little House in the Rockies (but not an imminent threat) is the Weston Pass fire southwest of FairPlay. It’s about 25 miles away, as the crow flies. We can see and smell the smoke. […]

On Elkhorn Road headed North toward Como, CO, the tired old asphalt is framed in spring by spunky yellow wildflowers. Thus, a haiku.

A “grateful for nature” haiku from Little House in the Rockies, where absolute peace and tranquility abound.