Hanging out in Denver and Boulder is always fun!

Highlights:

Creepy scene in the basement of the Museum of Natural History

Deer prancing around a Northern Boulder neighborhood

Wooden roller coaster at Elitch Gardens

Wish I lived inside the Tattered Cover

Ridiculously good pho at Pho-Yo

The other half of Pho-Yo

Build Your Own Burger at The Counter

The Shangri-La of Consumerism

The sign simply said, “Blue thistle.” It was a name that didn’t quite match its exotic looks — the prickly steel blue flowers, razor leaves and otherworldly blue stems. So I did some research on this strange dangerous blossom.

Presenting the Sapphire Blue Eryngium!

Otherwise known as the gorgeous stuff of human-eating plant nightmares.