30. she|her|hers. montrose, colorado, or the side of the state no one knows about. originally from washington dc social worker, obsessed with my dog, mountains....
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Bridal Veil Falls (Telluride) Colorado - Michael Hsu
Drop City 1969
You imagine your beloved three hundred years from now. They will be nothing but ash. It may not take three hundred years; perhaps within thirty or fifty years you will both be ash. You suddenly realize how foolish it is to be angry and to argue with each other. Life is so precious.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Finnish infantry equipped with gas masks and white camouflage advancing on cross-country skis during the Battle of Suomussalmi, 1939-1940.
hiking in colorado - august 2017
A Patchwork Orange
Ophir, Colorado
Colorful autumnal display in the mountain village of Ophir, Colorado.
Dolomites, March 1939.
Wagons preparing to go through an ice tunnel on the Million Dollar Highway near Ironton, Colorado, late spring of 1888.
via reddit
Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we’re not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom.
Sharon Salzberg (via cultivating-kindness)
This situation is not worth me ruining my peace over. I’m deciding to breathe and let this poor energy go.
Affirmation of the day. (via riffatmatinpoetry)
Practicing my Distress Tolerance skills like:
PostItForward Prompt
Share a photo or GIF of something that calms you down. Don’t have one? Here’s one.
I always enjoy calming kitty.
But I also want to share a few others:
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Related: Condense: The Escape
Crestted Butte, Colorado
Lovely day for a drive. ☀️ #montroselifestyle #montroseco (at Montrose, Colorado)
Snodgrass Mountain
February 20, 2017 (Almost a year ago)
Crested Butte, Colorado
Chad and Kat were visiting us out from Northern Virginia for President’s Day Weekend 2017. We first went to Monarch for them to ski (and I on the Continental Divide trail to snowshoe...another day for that post). So Crested Butte it was, as they had come for the downhill skiing experience of the Western Slope. Glade and I were excommunicated from our family (Nathan) and our friends (Chad and Kat) re: we don’t downhill ski. In the winter wonderland of Crested Butte, however, there is no shortage of nordic sporta dventures to partake in. With an intense need to fill the time with my own exercise, Glade and I headed to Snodgrass Mountain. Snodgrass Mountain is a great trail in multiple seasons. It’s so simple to get to-and I’m directionally challenged. After you pass the ski resort on your right, you’ll see a horse-staging area on your left. Shortly after this is the Snodgrass Mountain Trailhead. This is the about hte last point on the road before it becomes a dirt road.
I’ve only had the pleasure of doing it once in the winter and another time in the early Spring (mid June. June 17, 2016, actually. So most would consider that summer. Seasons are different in the mountains, lol). It’s a wonderful trail for snowshoeing and cross country skiing alike. The trail is lined with aspen so I’ve heard about the wonders of the hike during the fall (let’s also revisit what this means in the mountains. “Fall”= September 15-September 25. So...again, this is off base from what one generally thinks of Fall). The leaves are changing and what not. Okay and let me get back to the Spring. The wildflowers are pretty insane up on that mountain as well. But if you’re wanting the best wildflowers? Your best bet would be to go some time between late July and mid August. Not that in June there aren’t still flowers. But it’s not the ridiculous show that Crested Butte most certainly will have in store with you if you’re patient enough to wait until the next season (3 weeks tops?). This trail also serves as a mountain biking trail, so just keep that in mind when hiking (off leash most likely--it’s the Western Slope, it’s what we do!) with your furry friends.
San Juan Mountains, Colorado - by Ryan Dyar
Best advice I’ve received so far
the time you take being jealous of other people’s success is the time you could be using to build your own
you’re never going to “feel like it”
doing and practicing now is better than waiting for the perfect moment
eliminate people with toxic habits from your life
you are in control. Everything you’ve done up to this moment led you here. Therefore, your future is determined by what you do now.
everything is as it should be and only later in life you can connect the dots.
self discipline will give you freedom. consistency will give you results
everything is temporary. You should find freedom in this concept
the rich stay rich acting poor and the poor stay poor acting rich
being healthy means finding a balance between the good and the bad
the people that outranked you have outworked you.
you can’t be grateful and negative at the same time.
Meditate on these statements. They are so very powerful! Xxx
The Power Plant at Bridal Veil Falls
Telluride, Colorado
Bridal Veil Falls and the Idarado Power Plant make for a great backdrop to this old mining area near Telluride, Colorado.
Rico in the Fall
Rico, Colorado
The quaint old mining town of Rico in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.
San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Telluride, CO
MOUNT SNEFFLES WILDERNESS AREA COLORADO
Telluride Vista
Telluride, Colorado
View of the mountain village of Telluride, Colorado, from the Bridal Veil Falls Trail.
Flash Mob at the Floradora Saloon
Telluride, Colorado
This group of enthusiastic tourists flash-mobbed me as I was making my way down the sidewalk with camera in hand in Telluride, Colorado.
Distant Denali
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
- John Muir