Denver & Boulder Green Home

Boulder Creek I went for a walk on Sunday afternoon on a trail that meanders along side of Boulder creek.  The water was quite high and running fast which means there were recent rains in the high country. I love the sound of running water. I think it reflects the motion of life. Some say that wa...

Boulder Colorado Blossoms The trees in Boulder are in full blossom--finally. The colors are wonderful. I am amazed at how vibrant the shades of pink, red and white are in the trees. This is the time of year when the trees are shouting for joy and opening their mouths to soak up the spring sunshin...

Boulder County Colorado ClimateSmart PACE Program There is still time to apply for the spring round of the Boulder County ClimateSmart program. To participate homeowners seeking home energy efficient upgrades need to receive contractor bids and submit their application before the 7th of May. Visi...

Shadow Inventory Comes Out of the Shadow An article in Wall Street Journal today gave one of the most credible estimates of shadow inventory yet. According to estimates from LPS Applied Analytics, U.S. lenders have accumulated a shadow inventory (homes owned by the lender but not listed on the ma...

Denver Metro HUD Homes Open For Bid by Owner Occupants Until 2 May 2010 Denver HUD homes are homes financed with Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgages that have been foreclosed upon. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) takes ownership of the home a...

What Makes A House A Home? I was walking along the trail beside Boulder Creek a few days ago and came across this cozy little dwelling. It certainly looked attractive although I couldn’t get much more than my big foot in there. Even still, there was something special calling out to me. It made me...

More Boulder Colorado Tulips Last Monday, I posted some photos of tulips growing in Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. Those photos were mostly close-ups of the inside of single tulips. In today’s post, the photos show groups of tulips growing together. The tulips grow up and down the north and south s...

Boulder Colorado Sunrise I took this sequence of photos a couple of days ago. Sunrise is my favorite time of day. It feels like a sacred time—stillness and solitude prevail. I usually work on my writing projects in the early morning or read something inspirational. It is such a special time of da...

A Peek at the Health and Vitality Area of My 'Life! By Design This post will respond to the exercise on page 46 and continues on pages 47-48 of the Chapter titled “The Problem with Problems.” This is a book by Tom Ferry titled ‘Life! By Design. I am writing this post in response to the questions ...

  A Look At The Professional Area of 'My Life! By Design' When I first looked at the exercises for this assignment, I was a bit startled. How could I be so open and personal in a blog post that so many people may read? Well, what the heck, I decided to go for it. Actually, the timing is really go...