Missing the first 2 weeks of the music festival as we did with that magnificent family holiday in Kiawah, our summer in Colorado was shorter than usual.
We enjoyed greatly our lodger music student Norman Huynh , a student conductor who has just been appointed associate conductor of the Oregon Symphony in Portland. What a privilege for us. A lot of great concerts and of course the opera scenes masterclasses on saturday mornings was the icing on the cake.
Lots of good mountain biking in September before heading off to see our new grandbaby, Anna, in Inverness in the middle of the month.
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The bike in to the start of the hike to Petroleum Lake |
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Grizzly Reservoir |
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Anderson lake - weather about to change dramatically before we got to Petroleum lake |
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Made it - just . Petroleum Lake. Very remote. |
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This guy was perched on a tree right above our house for most of a day. Research indicated he was waiting to pounce on a flock of humming birds that we've been feeding for months ! |
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On her way to her first professional gig. A memorial service in Aspen. |
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The Buick in trouble. Don't write her off quite yet though. |