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  • Sandstone Ranch Park

    Sandstone Ranch Park

    New park recently opened! Sandstone Ranch Open Space Park is a new, Douglas County park that opened late September of 2020. It is about 3 miles west of Larkspur, Colorado. Douglas County secured this land in 2018 and opened the area to the public in September of 2020. We hiked on a Sunday, two weeks…

  • Staunton State Park

    Staunton State Park

    Near Pine Colorado We recently discovered this beautiful park which is part of the Colorado Park and Wildlife system. Staunton State Park is 3,918 acres of land which was donated to the state by the Staunton family in 1989 and opened to the public in May of 2013. The trail system is extensive and open…

  • Buried Treasure

    Buried Treasure

    I sat in my back-yard reading when a squirrel came hopping into the yard with two huge peanuts protruding from his mouth. He went to the base of the apple tree and proceeded to urgently dig a hole into which he dropped the first peanut and buried it. Then, he went about 10 feet across…

  • How Does My Orange Grow?

    It Happened!! After waiting over a year my single orange has fallen from the tree. When it broke from its branch into my hand I had a giddy moment with the feeling of holding a new puppy. An orange was born! Way back in May of 2019 was the first little bud of an orange…

  • How I Started Writing

    At the beginning of a New Year I look back on what went right and what went sideways in my writing life. I will say that this year, overall, was a good year. My work on Pikes Peak Writers debut anthology is slowly coming to fruition (there is an actual page on their site now),…