Aspen in August

Each year my husband and I spend a week in August tucked into the woods in a campground just above Aspen. I  love it here. How the light shines through the trees as the sun rises in the morning, moments of stillness, the surrounding peaks that mercifully remind me of my relative insignificance, the occasional afternoon thunderstorm  dramatically rolling in and then just as quickly back out. We go during the music festival with formal concerts, opera, dress rehearsals, theater, along with hiking, biking, four wheel forays into the back country and a few carefully curated Aspen dining experiences.  Accommodations  in town are breathtakingly expensive, but with the $15/day Forest Service senior discounted camping fee the cost is quite manageable. 

I feel very privileged to live in Colorado where these kinds of experiences are so easily available.

By: Bonnie Shetler

Mountain Dreaming

                                                                                  

         I love to sits

         And when I do    

         I dreams of soaring 

        'Bove morning dews

        With butterflies and

         Birds of hue

        Remarkable what my 

        Dreams can spew

Submitted by Steve Nelson

By: Kirsten Hartman