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16th Street Mall Holiday Lights

by jake2624 on November 29, 2009

The city of Denver turned up their holiday lights on Friday night. We decided to make the trip into the big city on Saturday evening and have some dinner and see what our new town had to offer! We arrived at the 16th Street Mall around 6PM and were greated by tens of thousands of [...]

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Santa’s Polar Adventure

by jake2624 on November 29, 2009

Saturday morning we drove about an hour outside of Denver to Georgetown – the Silver Queen of the Rockies. Georgetown is an old silver mining town with about 1200 residents and a quaint little historic district. First stop – Breakfast! We ate at the Happy Cooker in the historic district. Great food. Great atmosphere. And [...]

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Black Friday

by jake2624 on November 28, 2009

Black Friday – the day everyone goes shopping and retail stores turn a profit. We decided to buck tradition and pile the family in the car and make the 90 minute trip to one of my favorite places – Rocky Mountain National Park! We arrived at Sprague Lake at about 8AM. As expected, the lake [...]

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Tara’s dreaming of a white birthday!

by jake2624 on October 28, 2009

Some of Tara’s friends requested some photographic proof of her pain… so I whipped out some photos a couple minutes ago and realized I had some recent photos from nearly the same angle from a couple weeks ago. So with out further adieu, I give you before and after! Before Our front yard The view [...]

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Perfect Serendipity – Denver’s best cupcakes

by jake2624 on September 26, 2009

My friend Jenny has started a cupcake business in Denver called Perfect Serendipity. She needed some photos she could use for her website, marketing, advertising etc and I was glad to help out! We set up this weekend as the time for the shoot and after spending an hour or two of chasing trains (long [...]

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Fall is here!

by jake2624 on September 19, 2009

It was a brisk 49 degrees this morning with I packed the hens in the car for a drive in the mountains, but the sun was out, the skies were clear and we were hoping to get a chance to see some fall colors for the first time in years. We started out on Boulder [...]

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4th of July Road

by jake2624 on September 7, 2009

We woke up early this morning and because neither of us had to work today, I convinced Tara to go for a ride to nowhere with me. We piled into the truck about 6:45 and headed yonder west to see what we could find! My original goal was to stop at Boulder Falls and try [...]

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The county fair

by jake2624 on August 2, 2009

The Boulder County Fair was this weekend so we decided to head up and check it out. Maybe I’ve grown up a bit but the fair wasn’t anything like I remember from my youth. We managed to get some ok food and (gasp) some funnel cakes! Yummy!

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2009 Photowalk – Confluence Park

by jake2624 on July 18, 2009

Today was the 2nd annual Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk. What’s a photowalk? A bunch of camera geeks get together and hang out for a few hours, walk around and take some pictures! Photo… geek… this is all me! To give you a sense of scope – in only it’s second year Scott Kelby has managed [...]

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Greeley Stampede

by jake2624 on June 27, 2009

Ever since we got out to Colorado my mom has wanted to go to a rodeo. Today we went to the Greeley Stampede – Giddyup! We go to Greeley about noon and as we expected, it was much like a county fair. Corn Dogs, mean-on-a-stick, lemonade from the food family, and a ferris wheel, tilt-a-whirl [...]

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