Bed & Breakfast in Estes Park

This is a photo I shot in our meadow. We have a wonderful natural rock garden…which is doing much better than my domesticated flowers this year. Click this image for a beautiful Estes Park site.

Click this photo to learn about what to pack when coming to Estes in the Spring and Summer.

Thank you Lissa for posing a great question which inspired this post. Lissa will be coming to see us the weekend.

We offer the above items to our guests. It’s a new service we are able to provide compliments of the brand companies. Men and women deodorant and razor’s, lotions from Dove, Oil of Olay, and Nivea, power powder drink mix. Advil, throat lozenges, women’s sanitary items. Not shown are breakfast bars and chewing gum. The rooms have soap and conditioning shampoo and robes.

We hope this helps you with your traveling plans and avoiding delays at airport security. We are located less than one mile from a Safeway Grocer and a pharmacy.

Today we had a bed and breakfast association meeting at one of our new member’s inn. My schedule this week has been BUSY! So here I am again telling ya…I will bring you all up to date with pictures in the next few days.

I’ve much to share with you: Yesterday’s tea party, today’s B&B tour and meeting. Plus, an late meeting with our new website marketing guy. It’s been busy. BUT–I’ve been taking pictures. I even have a picture of our new marketing guy.

Meanwhile Eric stayed at the inn and shampooed the carpet. It’s a labor intensive all day task he does three or four times a year.

View from True Value parking lot. Serious. All you need to do is stand at the door and face west. I didn’t have to stand on the building’s roof, or the hood of my car, or crawl on my belly for this one.

I love living in Estes Park a small alpine-like resort town in the Rockies. I TRULY DO! The winters are cold- enough, windy-enough, long-enough, and snowy-enough to keep away the thin-blooded. Consequently, we locals get the town to ourselves–for the most part. To keep busy and, to keep change in our pocket Eric and I officiate and photograph weddings. He–officiate, I–take photos.

…and this is how we spent our day yesterday.

Click photo to go to the Floral Design of Erurope’s website

Mark and Lindy became friends of ours after staying at our inn summer 2007.

Eric the innkeeper and wedding officiator. By the way he loves officiating weddings and takes it all to heart. (Eric is the one in back, Armando is the grooms best-friend).

This is me.

This morning at breakfast our guest Joan spotted ma and pa blue bird outside the breakfast window. I had brought my camera out earlier in the morning, bless my lucky shutter.

Todd and Joan were kind enough to let me take a picture of them while they consumed a strawberry and banana breakfast parfait.

An fellow innkeeper, Gary Mansfield of Romantic Riversong, had suggested I take this shot.  He and I had an early morning meeting at this table a few weeks prior.

During our evening drive through the YMCA of the Rockies we made a few friends.

We had two couples with us this weekend. They were a fun, interesting and warm hearted people. We are blessed to be in a business where we get a chance to meet people who provoke thoughtfulness and reflection.

“YMCA”! Clicking this photo takes you to the artists web site.

Temperatures were in the mid 50s here in Estes Park! So, we packed up Maggie and spent the afternoon playing at Lake Estes.  Several geese were bathing and snacking on ground-stuff.

Black Canyon makes a stunning back drop in Estes Park’s Northern horizon.

Ooops sorry, I got too close to this fella.