Victoria Lise Walks Dirt Road Colorado Color

My Golden Birthday And Decade of Freedom

Today is my birthday! Not only my birthday but my golden birthday! For those who aren’t familiar with golden birthdays (I wasn’t until last year when my mother in law informed me) it is when your age and the numerical date of your birthday match. So in my case I’m 28 on the 28th! Today is also much more significant to me than just my golden birthday, though I feel it’s very sychronistic that my golden birthday falls on the day I celebrate a decade of freedom. You see, I could be celebrating that I’ve been an adult for 10…

6 Ways To Celebrate Earth Day Through Sustainable Alternatives

Happy Earth Day! I am no expert on any of this by any means but I can’t deny that pollution is a problem! We all love the Earth yet we don’t always show our love through our actions. Many times we’re simply unaware of the consequences of our choices plus we live within a society that doesn’t make it easy to avoid polluting our most precious resource. We’ve also become so accustomed to lives of convenience it’s challenging for us to break away from the most common culprits of pollution. In many instances we don’t even have another option to choose…

Styx attempts to camouflage with snow. Victoria Lise 2018

Dog Days of Winter

Happy Monday friends! We ended up getting snowed on this weekend (yay) and even though it was just 8 inches it made it feel more like winter around here. It’s the good kind of snow also known as Colorado’s Champagne Powder. It’s light, fluffy, easy to shovel and glorious to play in. We chiseled out time in between being sick and shoveling clients snow to hike through pine timber, up to a freshly covered, untouched lake. The air was crisp, the sun, exceptionally warm, and the knee-high snow, so very welcomed. Styx (our dog) lives for the unleashed, wild and…