Sweet Life With Mary

The Travel Channel has a series called “Food Paradise” and one of their episodes featured the Top Ten Factory Tours in the country (open and free to the public which included Hersheys PA and Krispy Kreme).   I did not see the complete episode but I happened to catch the tail end of the segment […]

  
I wish for my sister to take a walk with me… 
My little sister, though she is not so little anymore, is on her own in a faraway country.  She would be spending Christmas, New Year’s  and her birthday, away from all she holds dear, including our parents and everything that is familiar. 
She is also burdened by thoughts and recriminations of […]

Thanks to Indian Food Rocks for doing a post on Click, a monthly photo contest.  Otherwise, I would not have known about it.  The theme for the month of November is Noodles.
This is my entry.
I had wanted to send in a photo of MY favorite noodle dish= “1B” - Combination Vermicelli Noodle Bowl at my […]

Scenes from My Window
Spectacular fall colors woven on the mountainside. It was really the best time of the year to be driving throught Estes Park and on to the Rocky Mountains.

Not a Forest Fire, but a Controlled Burn.

We were high up in altitude and going higher. Nothing much lives up here, no trees, grass, nothing…

I […]

Unexpected Pleasures
Cattle Drive Along Highway 36
We were not the only car to stop and watch Black Angus cows crossing the main highway to Estes Park. Not a daily occurence to see a real cowboy and cowgirl in action. What a thrill to have cows mooing ten feet from our car window.

Parade Down Elkhorn Avenue
To our […]

This trip is funner than I thought!

My first idea for a travelogue of our trips was to have it ala Food Networks “Feasting With Asphalt” minus the motorcycles— a chronicle of the trip with philosophical insights, local people adding to the flavor, showcase of the food along the way.  I thought the travelogue for this trip […]

We are going to Estes Park this afternoon to hunt elk.  To shoot them, not with guns, of course, but with our cameras.
From Wikipedia, “Estes Park is a town in Larimer County, Colorado, USA on the Big Thompson River.”  It is the eastern gateway community to the Rocky Mountain National Park.
For us, Estes Park is where we get […]