Lisa's Blog from Estes Park, Colorado

Greetings from Estes Park! This weekend, the Oratorio Society of Estes Park will perform Handel's Messiah...Saturday night at 7PM and Sunday afternoon at 2PM. The orchestra is sounding, well, heavenly, and the vocal soloists are pretty wonderful, too! There will be a reception following the Sunda...

Greetings from Estes Park! On Monday, October 25, the Estes Park High School Marching Band was awarded the 4th Place Trophy in the Colorado Band Master’s Association State Championship event held at the Stoker Stadium in Grand Junction. The Bobcat Band performed “Music Of Howard Hanson”, featurin...

Greetings from Estes Park! As the mom of a 15 year old with Type 1 Diabetes, I'm constantly surrounded by the mis-information about this disease...so here's my contribution toward Diabetes Awareness month... Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are vastly different: Type 1 diabetes is an auto immune reacti...

Greetings from Estes Park! Yesterday, my son AJ and I were headed back from the 2A marching band finals in Grand Junction straight into a big October snowstorm that closed I70 just before Vail Pass. It was slow going once they opened the highway, but eventually the clouds parted at the Eisenhower...

Greetings from Estes Park! I was scouting out a place for my three sons to pose for a shot for our calendar this year and found this view of Long's Peak through the fence...the calendar shot location is a bit farther down the road. We are lucky to be enjoying the fall colors this late in the seas...

Greetings from Estes Park! Last night in Loveland, Colorado, the Estes Park High School Marching Band under the direction of Chuck Varilek and assistant director Dan Timbrell placed first in class 1A and 2A competition with a score of 58. The band will be traveling to Grand Junction for the State...

Greetings from Estes Park! Peak to Peak Highway, aka HWY 7, originates in Estes Park and is one of the most scenic drives between Denver and the "High Country" for viewing aspen leaves. Our aspen gawking season is an extra three weeks long this year, so you still have the opportunity to hop in th...

Greetings from Estes Park! The Estes Park Middle School Swim Team (of whom I am the proud mother of two swimmers) took second place this year at the state finals on Saturday behind a much larger school! The kids swam great and most posted huge time improvements, too. We are very proud of our swim...

Greetings from Estes Park! We are having an unusual fall here in the Rocky Mountains, with an extra three weeks of fall color! (no one is complaining...I'm thinking this is our reward for the snow in May) I have some really tall aspen trees in my backyard, and that's what it takes to get a shot l...

Greetings from Estes Park! We could see the very first snow of the season on Long's Peak this morning...and the aspen are not quite at their peak in the meadow in front at about 8000 elevation. It's always exciting to see the first snow, especially when it's this late in the season :-) The leaves...