Tigers

We had a tiger swallowtail butterfly on our tiger lily the other day.  It was beautiful and I snapped a whole lot of pictures, of course!

 

 

 We all enjoyed watching the butterfly!

Copper in Summer

Last weekend we took a trip to Copper Mountain and had a wonderful time.  We did a lot of hiking, biking and relaxing.  There is a lot to do, even in the summer, at the ski resort!

We took a nice hike and had beautiful views of the Tenmile range. 

 

We came across some nice wild flowers, too, including our state flower - the columbine

 

 This hike went through an old mining site.  Kaylynn had a lot of questions about that.

 

 Kaylynn's biggest adventure was zip lining at Copper.  She was pretty nervous at first, but after two trips, she was all smiles!

 

 A few other random pictures from the weekend.

 

 This is a view of Longs Peak on our way back in to town.

May travels

Jenny did all the work of posting the pictures from Cory and Kaylynn's trip to MT so I will just link to her blog!

While Cory and K were in MT, I was in Montreal for a work conference.   It was a very nice city and we ate great food!  I realized the only worthy pictures to post where of a few churches.

Here is a pretty church in downtown:

 

 We also toured the Basilica of Notre Dame.  The pictures do not do it justice.  It was gorgeous inside.

 Front altar:

 All the pews had these carvings on the end:

This was the back chapel area:

Cory had a big trip to Taiwan and China in May as well, so I will see if I can get him to add a few of those here for the non-Facebookers to see!