Whispers From The Woods
Musings from magikal folk…..
Friday Flashback
Friday Flashback
With the extraordinary snow storm that hit Denver today, I couldn’t help but remember the Christmas Eve Blizzard of 1982. The area I lived in received 34 inches of snow during that blizzard….these are some images after all was said and done….
I am standing next to my car that was buried in the snow. My boyfriend barely made it home that afternoon. Many last minute shoppers ended up getting stuck in the malls overnight…cars were abandoned on the highways…and the airport was shut down.
We lived on a rather steep hill…
My balcony was on the end, second floor ~ right above that snow drift.
The drift wasn’t actually that close to the building. I love the bumper stickers on the green car.
Hope all my friends in Denver are safe and warm this evening!
Virginia Beach, Virginia circa 1974Friday Flashback
June 1995
My oldest daughter and Connor. After all these years, I still miss you little buddy.
Friday Flashback
It has been awhile since I did a Friday Flashback but I ran across some photographs that were appropriate since Denver recently won the wild card.
Welcome to Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado on September 14, 1980….Denver Broncos versus Dallas Cowboys. My very first NFL game. My then boyfriend and I were very fortunate that I was able to get two tickets through work because all home games were sold out….years in advance….
What an unbelievable place to be…it was rumored to be the noisiest stadium for the other team to visit. The fans would stomp their feet and the earth would tremble….it was exhilarating to be there.
Red Miller was the coach that year….and Craig Morton was quarterback. So who won the game….the scoreboard over the infamous south stands tells the story. 
Go Broncos!
Friday Flashback
We came from Colorado….
….a few came from Philadelphia….
….to see the ones that were already there…
….and we got together where it all started.
We met in Virginia Beach all those years ago….early twenties.
And life was good.
Taken in our hotel room the summer we visited Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The way we were…..
I wish I had dated this photograph….but I didn’t…late 1970/early 1980′s I would say.
** Update On The Date ~ I found the negatives for this ~ July 1983 **
Friday Flashback
Once upon a time I owned ferrets. A male and a female…
Gandolf….
…and Galadriel. My then boyfriend and I were fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy ~ the books that is…this was long before the movies were even a dream.
They were the best pets…loving….each with their own unique personality…and they chuckled when they were happy. They would chuckle a lot, especially when it was time to play.
They were my little buddies. I still miss them….a lot.
Friday Flashback
Kiowa, Colorado ~ Circa 1981
Maybe an hour or so outside of Denver…head south, eastern plains.
I can remember watching the storms while looking north across the plains late one afternoon…we watched several tornadoes drop from the sky…
…it was awesome and frightening all at the same time.
You could see a car coming down the dirt road for miles at night…and the faint glow of the lights of Denver to the northwest.
You could hear the coyotes while sitting around the fires at night…and imagined they were just outside the fires glow….watching.
A totem created by the land owners to keep evil away…land owners that were our very good friends.
My boyfriend and I headed down a day earlier than the others. The following day there would be more tents…more people…all coming for the annual weekend camping party known as the Cactus Chew. But on this night, it was just the two of us and a camp fire…
Our hosts…I wish I had not lost touch with them many years ago…
There were many good times on this property…oh the stories we could tell.
Friday Flashback
Nellie…
…gone from our lives much too soon….
…Happy Birthday Grandma…
…we miss you every day…
Friday Flashback
Welcome to Steamboat Springs, Colorado ~ circa March 1983
Rabbit Ears Pass
Views from a Gondola
Steamboat’s infamous moguls and champagne powder.
Checking out the slopes that morning….my former boyfriend and our adventure buddies!
You could ski right up to the condos.
Steamboat Springs was one of my favorite places to visit when I lived in Colorado…I would love to go back one day.
Friday Flashback
I saw on television recently they have created a new “Dallas” series which will be premiering this fall I believe. In case you are not familiar with it, the show was about a wealthy Texas oil family….kind of like an evening soap opera. I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series, but I knew a lot of people who were. The original series ran from 1978 until 1991. I was living in Dallas from 1985 to 1990.
In March of 1985, I moved to the Dallas metro area from Denver…at the time, a little area called Lewisville. The above photograph is the Dallas skyline from inside the restaurant at the top of Reunion Tower. The tall building in the center of the image is the Bank of America building. At night, the edges of the 72 story building were accented by a green neon type lighting…I think they still are. The building was completed not long after we moved there…I can still remember when they turned on the lights….you could see the building from my apartment which was about 25 miles away….pretty amazing.
When my former sister-in-law once visited, we took a ride out to the legendary Southfork Ranch….the on location site of the television series mentioned above. As I said, I wasn’t a huge fan of the series, but I had seen it on occasion. I was a little disappointed when we arrived at the house…it looked smaller than on television.
I wonder if they will use the same location for the new series?
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