(For Thursday July 17) A couple of weeks ago a bestie was visiting Colorado.  She moved away a few years ago.  As we were walking and talking she took a deep breath and commented on how amazing the air was. How is was wonderful to take a deep breath of such crisp and fresh air. How it smelled good.  I totally agree but didn't really give a second thought until tonight when I was sitting by an open window and the breeze blew in just right. My eyes were closed at the moment this happened so what my nose picked up confirmed what my friend had commented on a few weeks earlier.  It was a delicious moment of breathing in deep fresh, crisp, pleasant Colorado air.  And I realized breathing it in how grateful I was to be able to live in this wonderful air!  I'm grateful that this air is something that refreshes and revitalizes instead of something that I breath because I have to in order to survive.  This Colorado air provides me what I need to survive but it...

Seriously. I am seriously grateful for this beautiful state in which I get to live.  Oh sure, I sometimes complain about the weather but then I see this... Backside of Pikes Peak seen from Woodland Park, CO Front side of Pikes Peak as seen in Colorado Springs, CO First snow cover of the 2013 Fall season! and I remember that other places in "Colorful Colorado" look like this... Top of Mt Evans - elevation 14135 ft.  Photo taken by Misty Huss Maroon Bells.  Photo taken by Misty Huss    and then I forget all about my weather complaints and I sigh a breath of gratitude for this amazingly beautiful state that I live in. Just like people who love the ocean never tire of looking at the ocean and being by it, so I never tire of being by the mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, and looking at them.  No matter what kind of day I am having the view of Pikes Peak settles me.   I am grateful for the beauty of Colorado, I can't imagine no...