It seems like at least once a week, someone will ask me how we like living in Colorado. As many of you might remember, we lived in St. Louis for a long time (27 years) and moved to Colorado just over two years ago. Why? Because we had vacationed in Colorado forever and decided that instead of spending 2 wonderful weeks a year out here, we should be spending all of the year out here! So we up and moved our household and The Loopy Ewe, and landed in Fort Collins. We love living here. I drive home from work, looking at the mountains, and being so grateful that we get to live here. Fall is just one of the many reasons we love it here. Aren’t the colors gorgeous? (Photos by my husband the photographer. Click to make bigger! One of the many reasons he likes it out here? Great subject matter for his photography business and a great art gallery in Fort Collins Old Town that sells his photos!)
Are you living in your most favorite place? If not, where would you rather be living? Leave a comment below and we’ll draw one name to win a print of one of these photos – your choice! (Approx. 11 x 14.) That way, you can have a little bit of Colorado fall color in your life, too!
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I live in Wyoming, and I wouldn’t live any place else! I love it here for the same reasons you love Colorado! It’s peaceful, friendly, colorful, and quiet!
My fiance and I just spent a week in Denver for GABF (Great American Beer Festival) and pretty much every day he asked when we’d move there. Fort Collins was beautiful! Now to start the planning to be able to move in a year or so!
I grew up in Michigan, but live in Texas now. I love both places even though they are so different. Honestly though, if I have my DH and children I could live anywhere and be good with it.
(A little yarn doesn’t hurt the mix either.) 🙂 🙂
Thanks for the chance!
I live in Iowa, and love it despite the fact that it can be 108 in the summer and 20 below in the winter. Having said that, I think Colorado could easily win my heart.
Nope! Absolutley NOT in my favorite place. I lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for 14 years and I’ll never understand the strange mists of the universe that made me think moving was a good idea. While I’m not unhappy, not a day goes by that I don’t miss the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Your husband’s photos are gorgeous. I love it when you post them.
I’ve lived in Wisconsin my whole life (49 years) and I LOVE it here. Wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I love having the four seasons. I love something about each one of them. Winter can get a little too long but we always survive!
Eileen
WiscKnitter
There is nowhere I would rather be than Dublin’s fair city. 😉 There’s a bumper sticker in Colorado that perfectly sums up my feelings about Ireland, and Dublin in particular: Not a [Dublin] native…but I got here as fast as I could!
I visited Colorado in 2004 to visit friends who had a cabin there. I absolutely loved Colorado and would have moved out there in a heartbeat if able. Thanks for the great pictures!
What a talent!
I live in a Southern California suberb. Colorado just might be more beautiful right now, but we have wonderful year round weather and all the many advantages of a multi-ethnic society. I love it here!
I’d love to live in Arizona. It’s my dream place 🙂 I spent some time there as a college student and I vowed to go back. I will retire to Arizona one of these days!
I live in NJ 🙁 – need I say anymore?? NOT my favorite. I’ve heard great things about Tennessee – DH and I want to visit there to see if it might be the place for us to retire. ANY PLACE has got to be better than NJ!
I live in NC we have beautiful falls too, but nothing can compair to the Aspens in Colorado. I would be there in a heart beat if I could.
I live in WV, and I can’t think of too many other places I’d rather live. It’s beautiful, ande WV people are the best!
However, I loved Colorado the 2 times I visited. I’m a John Denver fan, and I love the Rocky Mountain Highs!
I also could manage to live in the Outer Banks of NC. We go nearly every summer, and I love the beach and ocean
I can’t imagine living any where but Colorado. I love it here for so many reasons! This morning was a great example of one — beautiful fall colors and fluffy white snow under a brilliant blue sky.
I am a native West Virginian who currently lives on the banks of the Ohio River in West Virginia and love it. I have lived in FL, VA, and Indiana earlier in life. But if I could live anywhere, it would be in the eastern panhandle of WV on a mountain top with beautiful views, a bubbling stream and a field full of sheep. We always spent our vacations in that area camping, sightseeing and just enjoying the history of our great state. (I’m older now and would want a driver to do the errands, etc. in the winter but would love it.)
I live in Alberta. Many have said it is “God’s country”, mountains, prairies, northern tundra, etc. But I love going to the US. The country is so different in many areas. Desert, Farmland, beaches with warm water, everglades, etc. I did something on my bucket list this year, and that was to see and feel a real palm tree,lol.
I live in Manhattan, and due to the circumstances of our housing, will always live here. I try not to focus on what I can’t have, so I’m really not sure where I’d rather be. Maybe Providence, maybe Paris. At least I can visit them.
His photos are gorgeous!!! The colors are terrific! I am not really living in my ideal place right now. Dairyland is ok, but I think I need to be somewhere else! Maybe somewhere just a bit warmer and not a lot of snow. I’m not sure where that is exactly! I will find out one day on my travels! 🙂
Last summer I took a trip to Washington Island, Wisconsin, home of Sievers Fiber Arts school. I was only there for a few days, but left determined to come back and live there someday. Remote, beautiful, wild, and with access to great fiber artists? It seems like heaven on earth to me. 🙂
I can see why he loves living there. The scenery is gorgeous and his photography is amazing. I’m not sure if I’d rather spend time knitting with you or learning photography from your husband! 🙂
We’re in central Texas, came here from Missouri, from Kentucky, from Georgia, from Louisiana so we’ve lived in more than our share of places.
Here in central Texas, I try to overlook the bad and focus on the good. Some days that’s hard . . with the snakes, grasshoppers eating my garden, foxes after the chickens, extremely hot summers . . but we don’t have cold winters, I get to have a producing garden 12 months a year so I’m happy here but if I could choose anywhere in the U. S. to live, it might not be here.
I live in the city of Los Angeles. I always dreamed of living in the country. My kids would love to live in the country too. Unfortunately I can’t move I have elderly family that depend on me and I can’t leave them behind! (my mom is 82 and very sick and an uncle that I adore he’s 83- my kids Honorary Grandpa)
Currently, I’m living in Western Nebraska though I hail from Northwest Wisconsin. I will be moving to Fort Collins in about six weeks to work at CSU. I’m looking forward to finding all the fiber wonders that the Front Range has to offer. I’ll be in for a visit soon! I miss the awesome color changes of the trees in WI. Colorful Colorado is quite nice, though. 🙂
I always love his photos but I absolutely ADORE these. The changing of the fall aspens is one of the things I miss the most about Colorado. I like where I live now (on the lovely Flint Hills of KS), but I do miss living near the Colorado Rockies.
Since I was a little girl I’ve wanted to live in Virginia! Hope that can be a reality someday. For now, I’m living north of Boston in Massachusetts.
I live in Cleveland, OH. My home has a view of Lake Erie. The Lake is different every day – sometimes calm, sometimes stormy…just beautiful!
Makes me miss New England. Fall in the Israeli desert just isn’t the same.
I would love to live in the mountains.
I would say Colorado is on my short list. Maybe Utah. Or NH.
Sherri, I live in Colorado, too, by choice! Is it possible for you to tell us the name of the shop that sells your husband’s photos — just in case I don’t win the giveaway!
I am definitely NOT in my favorite place. I live in a suburb of Boston with a too-far commute to work (but at least we have a backyard). I always thought I’d like to live in Southern Vermont, but your pictures of the beautiful foliage in CO are making me rethink that…
Colorado is lovely, but my favorite spot is the North Shore of Minnesota. Grand Marais is my favorite. The shores of Lake Superior, the forests, rivers. If I could, that is where I would be. Even if I do not care for winter. Which I don’t, and this is near the Canadian border. But it is so beautiful!!!
I live in Baltimore and I do love it here but I miss the place I grew up in (I’m lucky though, I can visit my parents there anytime!). Right on the water (a creek that leads into a river that leads into the Chesapeake Bay), big trees in a big back yard, a great deck, oh it’s so nice. We used to have white birches that look a lot like those aspens! As a side note, I recently visited Alaska – I would consider moving there too.
My favorite season is Autumn, so if I were to live someplace else, the season would have to be adequately represented. I live in Massachusetts and while the foliage is beautiful here, Autumn is absolutely gorgeous in Japan. From the gorgeous colorful maple leaves, to the smell of the street vendors selling sweet potatoes, my favorite place to live in the season would have to be the rural parts of Chiba.
I’ve lived in Boise, ID for most of my life and wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. Its very similar to where you are in Colorado, but the mountains aren’t as high. I’m looking out my office window now at the beautiful fall foliage in the park with the tops of the downtown buildings peeking up behind them.
I currently live in NJ but would love to live in Vermont…the color, the mountains…it’s just beautiful!
My favorite place to live IS Colorado. Having once lived there for 10+ years! I miss it terribly.
My favorite place to live IS Colorado. Having once lived there for 10+ years! I miss it terribly.
For most of my life I have lived near mountains, many of them in the Rockies or near them. I love seeing the mountains in the distance and also the horizon and beautiful sunsets. For a couple of years I lived in North Carolina and was surrounded by trees and could not see anything but the trees and felt extremely claustrophobic. I fondly remember the friend who took me to a spot where I could look through a clearcut area and see the horizon. I was very glad to get back to home. I grew up in New Mexico and have lived in Wyoming and currently live in Idaho surrounded by mountains. While I might prefer to live in a different town, I have learned that I cannot live without the mountains and the open space. One of the most beautiful drives in the country is between Laramie, WY and Fort Collins. I miss that drive.
No. I just moved AWAY from Colorado after having lived there all my life. I miss it so much and would absolutely jump at the chance to go back. I grew up in Colorado Springs, went to college and met my Fort Collins native husband at CSU, and later lived in Boulder. Now I live in Arkansas, which probably couldn’t be more different! I would love one of your hubby’s photos to remind me of home!
I live in Iowa, we have only been here about a year. It’s nice, and I have family here – not close family, but family. I have to say though, I miss Florida, where I grew up, and I would love to live maybe in the UP of Michigan…or North Carolina…or Alaska…
We’ve had a short but pretty fall here, but I am already missing the sun. It will be a long dark winter…
Beautiful photos! I’m not sure if I’m living in my most favorite place, but I do love where I am right now. It’s rural and I’m surrounded by trees in WV. We have plenty of colorful trees out here and hiking trails right on our land. I like observing our “pet” deer, chipmunks, squirrels, and birds from our windows. It’s peaceful. 🙂
I live in central NJ. It’s not my favorite place, but it does have the advantage of being close to work that provides us with $$ so we can save to move to our favorite place – Fort Collins! My son moved there this summer and for him and all the reasons Sheri mentioned (mountains, gorgeous scenery, weather that I love, and The Loopy Ewe) I will live there someday!
If you happen to read this Sheri, what gallery sells your husband’s photos? I definitely need to stop in on my next visit. His photos are almost as great as your yarn!
Well , we’re an Army family right now, so we live where they send us and I have loved every place we lived. Right now that place is El Paso, Texas ….wonderful city and such friendly people. I have learned to find the beautiful and enjoy where I’m living while I’m there. My husband and I were both born and raised in the grand ol’state of Maine, so guess our true hearts always lean a little towards the east coast! We once lived in the quaint little town of Friendship, Maine….. Thank goodness I found the Loopy Ewe…they ship to everywhere…even S. Korea !
I live in Chicago. I plan to retire in Wausau WI. But if I could live ANYWHERE I’d choose Prague!!
Although I loved CO when I went there, I am in love with Sedona AZ. We spent two weeks in Az in Sedona and the Grand Canyon. I would love to live in that Red Rock area.
I’m one of those left behind in St. Louis, and I love it here! Baseball heaven!
I’ve lived in Wisconsin all my life and love the 4 seasons (well most of the four) 🙂 and don’t know that I’d ever move but do remember the first of several family vacations to Colorado and the first time I ever saw mountains – such beauty.
Sheri, These photos are stunning! I can imagine you have them hanging all over your house! I live in southeastern PA, not far from Philadelphia. I love this area for the change of seasons & convenience to the city, however I am a mountain person and would love to live out west. I spent a summer living in CO and vowed to move there one day. Since then I have visited the Pacific NW and love that area too. Until the move can happen, I love getting to travel to new places.
I live in Ohio near Lake Erie and cannot think of a place I would rather live.
Hanging on until DH can retire and we can move back to Nebraska. I’ve met great people in Texas, but I don’t like heat — I get SAD in the summer since it is too hot to go outside