Joyous summer in the mountains

We're in fantasy land here and it feels fine. Grateful every minute for the magnificence that is Star Mt. No surge of coronavirus in our area or in the state at this point. I think these are such extraordinary times and you just have to try and do your best to live life and be safe. The towns (CB and Gunnison) are taking the masks and social distancing very seriously. Noone wants a surge here.

The creature report: deer everywhere, saw my first fawn of the season, the tiny thing clearly had just been born - it could barely stand up. No photo even though I had my camera - it just seemed wrong to disturb the anxious mother. We've had a couple fox sightings - this one is pretty lean from the winter. Needs to fatten up I think. The hummingbirds are insane. I'm boiling up sugar water at a rapid pace every day. We have 4 feeders and they are maxed out.

The flowers are quite spectacular right now with everything blooming much earlier than usual. One of my favorites -the state flower - Columbine is just out. Usually blooming in early July.

we had snow the day after I took this

same mountain range- lot more snow!

We are spending lots of time on home projects as the house seems to require a lot of maintenance and manual labor. Mark, now retired for 6 months, is spending giant amounts of time catching up on projects he couldn't get to before. Sanding and repainting deck chairs, stripping and restaining our 1000 sq ft deck, mowing our wild grass around the house. Hoping he doesn't burn himself out. I'm not shirking work either - we just had a patio built close to our woods and much disturbed area to repair, move rock, shoveling, raking, reseeding grass, and adding plants. Crossing fingers the deer will leave the new plantings alone but history says they may eat it all - especially Flap who is well known for eating things no other deer will touch.