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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My husband and I would move to Colorado in a second if we had jobs out there after a trip we took there this summer and I showed him the state I love and where i went to college.
I live in beautiful Sonoma wine country in CA. SF and beaches within an hour, mountains within 3 hrs. Great food and produce year round.
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Gorgeous photos! I am not living in my most favorite place; but, there is work here and that’s a good thing. 🙂 I am in Colorado. If I could live anywhere, it would be in the Great Pacific Northwet.
I am actually working on getting a job in CO, which is my dream place to live. I live in San Diego and while I love everything about it I can feel CO calling. The prints are beautiful. I would love to win one.
I live in St. Louis (and really miss you being here!), but I would love to live in the Rockies. We met a couple gentlemen on the trail in Rocky Mtn National Park a few years ago that said Fort Collins was the place to be,,,but don’t tell that to anyone! They must have been from the Chamber of Commerce the way they were selling your town, but I believed them. That would be my pick!
I am living in one-third of my favorite places. I adore Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, but miss my home state of Hawai’i. I also have a great love for Bozeman, Montana.
My answer is yes, but I want to spend time in the other two places, too.
Love your aspen photos!
beautiful, we used to come to Colorado every summer when our son was young. such a beautiful place.
I live in St. Louis, near the old Loopy Ewe location (sniff) but I’d much rather be living on the Florida Gulf Coast. If I had unlimited money, I’d build on Captiva Island, that’s my idea of heaven.
If only . . . Colorado would be our first choice if we were to relocate when (if) we can retire. Always been my favorite place. Beautiful pictures – I was just telling my husband I wish you could send me the last one for enlarging and framing. Hope I win!
We live in IL and dream of TN. We would still get our 4 seasons, just less winter. Someday….someday.
I’m currently living in one of my favorite places, Ocracoke Island NC, but the mountains & northern climates call to me often (especially this time of year) I may relocate in the next few years, either to Homer Alaska (where I lived for 3 years & loved every minute) or to New England here on the east coast.
Gorgeous photos!
I live in southern Illinois (not a terrible distance from the old Loopy Ewe location), but if I could live anywhere, it would be Maine, preferably near one of its beautiful rocky coasts. I’ve visited twice, and the first time we crossed the state line, it was like my soul had come home.
In my dreams I live in Tuscany or one of the British Isles. But in reality I’d love to live in Colorado or Wyoming. Maybe some day.
I love Albuquerque. I thought I was going crazy though. I noticed you lived in Fort Collins, CO and thought “I thought she was in the Midwest somewhere. How could I NOT know she was practically a neighbor.” Now, reading this post and looking at when you made the move I realized it got lost in the aftermath of some pretty major life stuff for me. Gorgeous pictures and one of these days I WILL head north and hunt you down (in the best way).
I live in Texas and it is a great state to live in. But as long as I have family close by, I could live just about any where. Colorado looks like a pretty great place, judging by those pictures!
I live in New Hampshire and I love it. It’s almost perfect for us (Vermont would be perfect, but we’re pretty darn close.) I love the four distinct seasons, especially our Autumn (which is heavily red and orange as opposed to Aspen-yellow).
We moved to the Pacific Northwest (Portland) 14 years ago and I love it! One hour to the east for mountains, one hour to the west for ocean, and it’s so *green*!
I used to live in Colorado and those photos are making me feel very homesick! I currently live in the midwest in order to be closer to family – also lovely!
I live in Houston now, but lived in San Jose for a couple of years. I really loved Northern California and would be so happy to live there again.
We live in a suburb of Philly Pa…not too exciting but close to a lot of family and that’s important.Colorado sure looks pretty!!!
I live in Tennessee and every. day. I dream of living in Oregon, near the coast. Ever since I visited the PNW a few years ago, I can’t get it out of my head! it’s SO gorgeous! 🙂
I live in Michigan and love it. The Upper and Lower Peninsulas, The Great Lakes, four seasons….beautiful.
Colorado is my favorite place. I lived there for 17 years, and loved it. Moved because my daughters came east to college and, unfortunately, stayed on the east coast. I long daily for the scenes, light, and people of this beautiful state. Great photos!
THere is no place I would rather live than in Texas! I love this state! I will have to say I haven’t visited many of the remaining 49 states. We have all of the seasons, which I love. We don’t get much snow. Wouldn’t trade places with anyone!
I live in Westchester County, NY. We are very close to the Hudson River and we have lots of beautiful scenery around here. I really do love the area, but the cost of living is very high compared to some other parts of the country. I have been looking around to see where we might want to retire. I don’t think I’d want to go as far as Colorado because it would be too far away from family, but it does look very pretty.
I love where I live and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I’m in Colorado. Your hubby ‘s pictures are beautiful! Tell him to keep up the good work!
Wow! If I had a big open wall, I’d love to have a mural-sized pic one or pic five to put on it!
I do not live where I’d love to live. I’m not sure yet I know where that is, but where I live today, no. I have many places I’d like to visit before I decide. I would have loved to live in my parents’ former house in Washington State, but that didn’t work out. They had beautiful views from the Olympic Peninsula out over the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Your husband’s photographs are amazing! Are any of the drives shown the one to your place? That would be nice!
Thanks for the contest!
I live in Massachusetts not too far from Boston. I like this part of the world but I wish I lived on the ocean or could see the ocean out my window.
Boulder, Colorado – so happy to live here and to be so close to TLE!!!
We lived in Colorado when my husband’s job relocated us to Chicago. Ugh! Chicago is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live here. We can’t wait to move back to Colorado!
I am already living in my favorite place, Montana, and my husband and I just bought our own little corner of it.20 acres with a natural spring and a wee little duckpond. 🙂
I live in Tucson, AZ. I don’t want to move. But would love to have a place in Maine for the fall, Portland, OR for the summer. But Tucson is best for winter and our early sping wildflowers.
I’ve been fortunate to have lived in Colorado for the past 30 years. I love everything about living here. I do believe I could be happy almost anywhere, but when hubby and I discuss moving, I always want to stay in my small rural town. Love the photos. Will be heading up to Ft. Collins soon and will visit the gallery, as well as TLE.
Love those pictures! Always makes me jealous, that I can’t capture the colors myself as well as he does. Of course, if I had better equipment, it might help. 😉
I spent most of my life living in the Chicago suburbs. During grad school, I lived in central Connecticut for a couple of years, and in Washington, DC. Spent the majority of the last decade taking care of my mom, and after she passed away, had to consider where I wanted to be. I’m now in South Carolina, and absolutely loving it! The hardest part was moving so far from my BFF (with packing/purging a close second), but it’s been truly the best thing I’ve done in years.
Years ago my dad was stationed in a little town in the Bavarian Alps called Oberammergau. Such a wonderful place. I would love to live there again.
No, I’m far from my favorite place. I would live in Tsavo, Kenya, East Africa. It was so icredible, I kept telling friends to pinch me, so I would know I wasn’t dreaming. And besides, if you remember Out of Africa, Denys (Robert Redford) told Karen (Meryl Streep) “if they’re looking for me, tell them I’ve gone to Tsavo”.
Hmmm–movie tonight?
I have lived in Texas all my life. I cannot imagine living anywhere else, but if I had to choose somewhere else to live Fort Collins, CO is on the short list.
Myhusbandwants us to move to Italy where I can tend to flowers on my balcony. And knit,of course.
Not quite….I’m in a flat area of PA and I need more mountains, having grown up among them. New England is really where my heart is.
I love living in Minnesota – 4 true seasons and both all the conveniences and culture of city living and easy access to the outdoors. The only thing I miss is mountains (and aspens in the fall!).
I live in Missouri but my heart longs to live in the Florida Keys.
I live in OK, and I’m happy here because my family all live reasonably close, I can enjoy OU and OKC Thunder games, and enjoy the many benefits of living somewhere where most things are affordable. There are a number of places i enjoy visiting (Kansas City, Portland, Austin, San Diego, NYC, Phoenix/most of CO), but if I could live anywhere, it would be in NM, in Albuquerque/Santa Fe/somewhere in between.
I live in Illinois now, not my favorite place but not bad. I would rather live in Oklahoma near my family. 🙁
I like living in Texas now. But I would move to Munich, Germany in a heartbeat if I was able.
What beautiful photographs! All of those lovely aspens remind me of Christopher Burkett’s work.
My husband and I chose to leave San Francisco for Kansas City (his hometown) 10 years ago. It was really hard not to move back to Chicago (my hometown), but this is where we belong. At least we’re within a day’s drive to Estes Park, and we’re blessed to live near many of my in-laws. We even take my husband’s 96 year old grandma to church and lunch most Sundays. What could be better than that?
Live in Ohio. But if I had a choice…it would be Australia. Love it down there.
I live in Cincinnati. I have moved all over the country and even internationally and this is where I choose to land. It is home, with family and friends. I hate the summer humidity and the winter ice, but being close to family makes it all OK.
I used to live in Baltimore. Now live in NE Florida, which is definitely not my prefered place.
Baltimore tempts me because of friends but I’d really like to live in a place that provides more outdoor activities but still has good places to eat and do indoor things. Really want 4 distinct seasons and miss Fall most of all.
I suspect we will stay here when we retire because my DH hates cold weather (he hates summer heat too) and there is no state income tax.
I’ve never been to Colorado. It’s on the vacation list but not until retirement because my DH can’t vacation in the fall and that’s when I want to be there.
We got to see the start of the fall color in Wyoming a few years ago but nothing nearly as lovely as your husbands photos. I’d love to have one to hang on my wall. Most of my walls have my photos on them but there’s room for ones as wonderful as these.
I live in Southern California, a suburb of LA. While the LA area has a lot of opportunities, my heart is in Portland, OR. My husband was working on a project there a few years ago and I fell in love while visiting. I don’t think we’ll be moving there, but I plan to visit often!
I live in Florida and I don’t like it, if I could live anywhere it would be Portland, Oregon, so beautiful! Love it there.