Excellent guide to Colorado Farmers’ Markets for your locally grown produce and locally made artisan breads, cheeses, prepared foods, crafts and more shopping pleasure.
As a “Coolsville Colorado” resident, please share your experiences and favorite Colorado Farmers’ Market produce, artisan products, and crafts sellers/stands as we all pursue the best Colorado has to offer. Continue reading
Posted in Exploring, Food/Drink, Shopping
After 20 years since their first release, Leftover Salmon is once again touring with a reinvigorated passion for music and performing live. This Boulder based “jam band” has built up a legion of fans that anxiously await the band’s first new release and full length tour in 8 years. It’s easy to see why Colorado has always been a hot bed for bands like Leftover Salmon and why Colorado music fans have such a musical connection to celebrating life, love, the outdoors, and pure enjoyment of settling into a “good groove.” When it comes to a musical genre, Leftover Salmon goes way beyond the typical “jam band” to create a new genre that exhibits their personal Colorado lifestyles through a musical improvisational blend affectionately called “Polyethnic Cajun Slamgrass.”
Be sure to Pick up 20 years of Leftover Salmon FREE downloads and their soon new studio release at their Online Store. Or better yet, enjoy a live show at an upcoming Tour date Schedule. Local fans can enjoy a day of skiing and then catch them at Breckenridge’s Spring Fever Music Festival on March 31st before they venture out across the country. Continue reading
Posted in Music
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For millions of years in late February/early March, the sandhill cranes have made Colorado’s San Luis Valley their layover to fuel up for their annual south to north trek. Visitors to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge can witness this phenomenal natural spectacle.
In late February the Rocky Mountain sandhill crane flock, estimated to be 20,000 strong, start arriving from their wintering grounds at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. They will be here until late March or early April eating the grain that will support them as they fly 850 miles north to their summer breeding grounds at Grays Lake National Wildlife refuge in southeastern Idaho. They make their reverse migration in early September through early November.
It is also in the San Luis Valley that the cranes perform their courtship dance, leaping and bowing while raising and lowering their wings, and making a croaking sound to one another. Once a male and female bond they form a pair for life.
Greater sandhill cranes are about four feet tall with a six foot wingspan. They weigh around twelve to thirteen pounds and are uniformly gray except for a red patch of skin on their foreheads.
You may also see similar-looking but much smaller birds in the area. These are lesser sandhill cranes, and about 1,200 of them are part of the Rocky Mountain flock. Most lesser sandhill cranes stay east of the Continental Divide in a flock of 500,000 that make a well-known migratory stop in the Platte River basin of Nebraska. Besides the cranes there are thousands of waterfowl, numerous wintering bald eagles and other raptors that highlight the wildlife viewing.
For more amazing photographs by Raymond Vreeland please check out http://www.artworknetwork.com/raymondvreeland/
As a Coolsville Colorado resident, Please share your experiences as we all pursue the best Colorado has to offer.
Posted in Exploring, Outdoor Activities
After years of enjoying our secret Golden Venezuelan food cart turned restaurant – Empanada Express Grill now has 2 additional locations in Denver Highlands and East Colfax. For a truly unique food find in these parts, make the special trip to taste some Venezuelan dishes made and served to you from the heart.
The main offerings are Arepas and Empanadas. Arepas are to die for – amazing corn cakes baked into crispy hand held pockets stuffed with panela cheese, black beans, a sweet fried plantains, and your meat of choice (Vegetarians need not apply to the meat because not needed to still taste amazing). Did you know Arepas are both the daily bread of Venezuelan and Columbia, which were once one country? Continue reading
We love FREE Days. 2012 free days at the Denver Zoo, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver Art Museum, and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Save these dates to your calendar:
The Denver Zoo
2300 Steele Street
Denver (303) 376-4800
http://www.denverzoo.org/
November 5, 16, 28
The Denver Museum of Nature and Science
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver (303) 322-7009
http://www.dmns.org/
April 22 (Earth Day Celebration)
May 6
June 17
July 2
August 12, 20
October 14
November 19
December 9
Denver Botanic Gardens
1005 York Street, Denver (720) 865-3500
http://www.botanicgardens.org/
March 27
April 22 (Earth Day)
July 26
August 28
October 1
November 2
Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
8500 Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton (303) 973-3705
http://www.botanicgardens.org/
April 6
June 1
July 6
August 3
November 2
Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver (720) 865-5000
http://www.denverartmuseum.org/
April 7
April 29 (Día de los Niños)
May 5
June 2
July 7
August 4
September 1, 8
October 6
November 3
December 1
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
1101 13th Street
Denver (303) 547-3410
http://www.denvercenter.org/
SCFD 10 for $10 Each Tuesday at 10am, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts will release a limited number of $10 tickets. Ten seats for every Denver Center Theatre Company performance in the coming week will qualify (up to 25 shows per week). Use code SCFD.
Thank you SCFD for providing us with these free days!
Sometimes the simplest things can make life so much easier. Thank you Scrape-A-Round ice scraper. I was running late this morning and our beautiful Colorado Winter left a thick ice coating on my car’s windshield and you tore right through it in seconds.
Coolsville Colorado folks, check out this link and their video to see how to use it. Keep one in your vehicle – worth every cent. Scrape-a-Round
Posted in Gear
If you are only familiar with chain supermarkets and expensive “gourmet” markets, you are truly missing out on the
finest foods and experiences in the Denver metro area. Fresh produce, meats, cheeses, baked goods, bulk spices, quality specialty imports, lower prices, and many unique prepared foods are abundant in our international markets. Your mind will boggle over the myriad of delicious scents, ridiculous variety, and jaw dropping food porn visuals. The only thing that will distract you from planning your weeks’ meals is the crazy people watching of enthusiastic and excited shoppers. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Exploring, Food/Drink, Shopping
Tagged African, Asian, Colorado, Denver, Ethnic Food, Grocery Stores, Indian, International Markets, Italian, Middle Eastern, Russian
