Last Saturday, a multi-million dollar rugby stadium opened half a mile from my house. The Village of Glendale, Colorado (a self-governing burg in the middle of Denver) is the first municipality in the U.S. to adopt rugby as its official sport. Infinity Park seats 5000 fans, which is 453 more than the entire population of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Colorado’
Scrummin’ in the ‘hood
Posted in West, tagged Colorado, rugby on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado cult wine
Posted in West, tagged Colorado, Wine on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
John Sutcliffe makes a killer Viognier. He has interesting friends, too, after managing legendary restaurants in New York City. They come to visit him in the scrub country of southwest Colorado. “Princess Caroline of Monaco drank my very first bottle of cabernet franc standing in the kitchen eating fried eggs (from his own chickens) for [...]
Watershed moment
Posted in West, tagged Colorado, Continental Divide, watershed on September 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gibson Lake sits just below the crest of the Continental Divide. The hike to reach it winds through aspen groves then thick willows, pushing above timberline, across streams and onto tundra fields spotted with giant, solitary boulders. Like most alpine lakes, Gibson nestles into a rock bowl surrounded by the last bit of mountains before [...]
Camellias and Columbines
Posted in South, West, tagged Alabama, Colorado, Lost Valley Ranch on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I decided to live in Colorado on my sixth birthday. My family drove in our brand new Buick from Alabama to Lost Valley Ranch where I promptly fell in love with a horse named Billy and a cowboy named John. We traveled back and forth between these two places in my heart every summer. I’ve [...]
