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 an undesirable place to many… the Fargo, ND area (“undesirable” as evidenced by a company who sent their wmplyees here for a visit as punishment). I love both Minnesota and North Dakota and would love to live in a remote, sparsely populated area of either state. Other places I would live would be Montana or Wyoming. Lots of wide open spaces. 🙂
Those pictures are beautiful! I absolutely love where I live (southern Indiana just 10 minutes from Louisville) and I couldn’t think of a better place to live.
I grew up in Wisconsin and lived in the Midwest for 30 years. And then I discovered Utah. I live across the street from a mountain, hike year round, and love short mild winters, little rain, no mosquitoes, pretty canyons, and great weather. In 15 minutes I can be in downtown SLC, or hiking a quiet mountain trail. I still can’t believe that I get to live in this great place.
I live in Kentucky and love it here. I love to travel, but evry time I leave, I can’t wait to get back home.
My morning morning drive to work takes me through horse farms and rolling hills – I don’t think there is a more beautiful commute out there.
Beautiful pictures! I currently live in San Jose, which I’m starting to like, but I think that I would prefer living in New York (though my husband would hate it, and I would prefer to live with him here than without him there! 🙂 )
I was born in Colorado, raised in Wyoming and will always call the Rocky Mountains home. I left to go to college and then married into the United States Navy–we moved often all over the US, but only to places with an ocean nearby! We now are back in Colorado (they let my yankee husband and daughter in because I was born here). And frankly the only thing wrong with Colorado is that they forgot to put an ocean here (my husband misses the smell of the sea) except for the one that was here millennia ago. I do not need a photo of Colorado, so if (and that’s a big if) my name gets drawn please draw again. I just couldn’t miss the opportunity to sing the praises of my home state and its sister to the north.
I lived in Fort Collins for 37 years before moving (husband’s job) to North Platte, NE. Talk about shell shock!!!! I lasted 11 months and we are moving BACK TO COLORADO!!! Yay!! Steamboat Springs – so, not Fort Collins, but at least it’s in my beloved state 🙂
I would like to live in a small town again where you could walk to the stores and get to know everyone. I visited Colorado about 10 years ago and it was beautiful.
Love your hubby’s pictures. Beautiful.
I’m from a tiny town in Virginia and long at times to go back.
We have a little cabin in Idaho and spend summers there. I absolutely love it. We are in the middle of nowhere, have a lovely river running through the property and enjoy the peace and quiet. We live the rest of the year in Georgia which is also beautiful but the Atlanta area is just so congested. It is nice to be able to count the other cars you see on the road in Idaho! We love to visit the Loopy Ewe as we drive from one location to the next!
Weaverville, North Carolina – near Asheville
I live where I do because of a great job, also it’s close to family. I think my ideal place would be near water. I’d love a lake front or ocean front home.
Fort Collins CO to be by The Loopy Ewe!
Love Dallas, and all my family is here. Moving would only be considered if the entire extended family could come, too! Vacation homes in downtown Chicago, the Ozark Mountains, Georgia peach country, near Yosemite, and in Wuhan, China would be welcome!
I live in Philly, but I’d rather be in New York, and will probably move there in the relatively near future.
We spent 2weeks in Buena Vista CO last month for the8 year. Been to many more times before that. I love the mountains. Many say there hearts are at the beach but for me I’d rather be in the mountains. I love nature and those photos sing to my soul. I love how the aspen leaves on the forest floor look like coins. To be that’s is all the gold I’d ever want.
If we could live anywhere, we would pack up and move to Santa Fe today! Just love the mountains and the Southwest architecture…Ft. Collins would be nice too…with Loopy Ewe right around the corner!
Within reasonable driving distance of TLE. Between Denver and Ft Collins would suit me just fine. I like being close enough to airport and Amtrak to travel whenever I want (with knitting, of course).
I’m sorta kinda happy where I am (it’s where my boys are), but I would much rather live ‘down on the creek’ – which is my parents’ farm – rolling hills and nice and quiet.
I live in Idaho and am always grateful for 4 seasons. But, for one year only, I would like to live on Kauai, the garden island of Hawaii where shoes are optional and you never need lotion or chapstick.
My daughter and her husband just moved to Fort Collins (just down the road from the Loopy Ewe!). My son, after one visit, is planning on moving to Fort Collins in the spring. We live in North County San Diego, with a gorgeous view of the mountains. We love it here, but with both our kids (and possible future grand kids) there, I could definitely see myself moving there some day. We were just there for a visit and got a glimpse of the fall color. It is a gorgeous and special place.
I’d love to be living farther east and closer to my family.
I live in Sacramento California where I was born, and while its nice to be in the middle of the state where nearly everything is just two hours drive time away, I’d really love to live in a state where you have four truly defined seasons! Here it goes to summer early, which is very hot and lasts for a long time with a tiny break for autumn, and then into winter which may just be a cooler version of autumn. Spring is nearly as fast. Colorado would be lovely to live in, or maybe one or two of the north-eastern states like Maine, Michigan or Vermont.
I moved back to the Great North Woods of Michigan 5 years ago when I retired and I LOVE IT but—– There’s always a but isn’t there — I just wish all my friends out east and my kids lived just a little closer — LIKE RIGHT HERE WITH ME! Then I would truly be a very happy camper!
I’m in Cincinnati and have lived in Ohio all my life. But Boston is the area that calls to me. I think I’m even brave enough to try the winters.
I have had a fortunate life, lived in places I love, Monterey CA, Napa CA and now in a small town near Sedona AZ. Natural beauty always around me and colors to make me weep with joy. I would love one of your hubby’s pics…Colorado is another of my favorite places and on my bucket list. A lot of my knitting color choices come from the memories of places.
We have lived in many places over the years and the best place that we did not want to leave was Denver. We had two glorious years there before we were transferred to Florida which does not compare. We now live in Henderson Nevada but still long to return to Colorado. Your photos remind us of how beautiful that area is. So I would have to say I would love to be in Colorado!
My company is relocating me from Cleveland to our Denver office, ETA first quarter of 2014. I was in the Denver area this past week on business, and it was 27 degrees with sparkling sunshine! Very beautiful! Looking forward to relocating to this beautiful area but could use some pointers as we’ve lived in the same area for 20+ years.
I live in Southeast Missouri, but I’ve always wanted to live somewhere like Texas or Arizona. If I could only take all my friends with me, I would consider it more seriously…
Living in Bath, ME now and it definitely is “the way life should be”. Wouldn’t trade it for anyplace! So lucky to have found the perfect place to retire.
wow! beautiful photos! would be honored to win one! living in my favorite place? No. But where is my favorite place? Guess anywhere close to my family…..and need to be close(ish) to the ocean…..altho I love the mountains too. At one time, my favorite place would have been, without discussion, Cape May NJ……but there is also Vancouver Island BC, Hawaii (not sure I could live there year round tho) and Ireland…..we still have my parents house on the Monterey Peninsula and that use to be a lovely place until tourists discovered it year round! It is neat when people can chose one place as their favorite place! Have always had issues making up my mind!
I live in NC and love it. I’ve never been to CO but would love to visit sometime. I think we are all blessed to live in this beautiful country that we call the USA!
So many interesting choices in the world. I am in beautiful Tennessee. And it is truly beautiful. You start in west TN and you have beautiful farmland head to middle TN and you get the wonderful Cumberland Plateau and venture into east TN and you get the majestic Great Smokey Mountains. We have it all in Tennessee.
I spent two summers in Buena Vista CO and it was amazing. I also spent a few weeks in Churchill MB, Canada. My heart longs for the simplicity of the tundra and the polar bears…..
I would love to live in Stratton, VT or at the beach.
Like you, we finally moved to a place we visited so often that we felt like locals even before we arrived – Alaska! We’ ve been here two full years now, after having spent over 50 years in coastal California. Do we love it – absolutely! Would we ever move back, even during the depths of winter when it is 0 degrees here and 75 degrees on the beach in CA – never! We love the view out our windows of the gorgeous Kachemak Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, the beautiful, peaceful, frosty winters, the incredible summers with endless days in which to garden, fish, and explore, and the genuine, warm folks we now consider our friends and neighbors. I do miss having a large local selection of yarns to fondle in my LYS, but thanks to the internet and the Loopy Ewe, I am not completely deprived!
Beautiful photographs! Although I am originally from New England, I now live in Labrador and love it! The winters can be long so we are looking to retire to Nova Scotia in a few years.
I live in CT now, but grew up in Boston. I would love to retire on Cape Cod.
I live in Iowa. This is where I was born and raised. I lived for a while in Texas, but I got home sick and moves back (I was very young then). I love Iowa as it is home and all of my family are here. I enjoy the four seasons that the Midwest offers.
I’d like to be living near my sister’s farm in North Wales, waking up to the sheep going “baaa”.
I currently live on the Chesapeake Bay, in southern Maryland. As much as I love it here, I would like to live back in the Manoa Valley in Honolulu, where my mother’s family is from.
Please tell your husband that I just loved looking at his photographs! They took me back home! I grew up in Colorado, but my job and life brought me to Arizona. There is beauty here in a very different way, which I do enjoy, but my heart still longs for Colorado. Thanks for this little walk down memory lane! Beautiful!!
I’m currently in Christchurch, New Zealand. Where would I like to be living? – Nelson, New Zealand. Christchurch is lovely, though a little bit of a mess still, but I would love to be based in Nelson again.
We live in western Montana, surrounded by mountains, and the autumn is beautiful here. I do find more and more though that I long to have a view of both water and mountains.
While we enjoy living in Austin for the live music and the beautiful Hill Country, my husband and I plan to someday move back to Colorado. It is where he grew up, where we met, and where our children live, work, and go to school. Lucky for us there are plenty of excuses to visit often until we can actually make the move!
I was born and raised in Michigan, went to college in the UP, moved to COLORADO (for a year 😀 ), moved to Germany, then to Texas and then back to Michigan.
I would love to live somewhere else. Just not sure where.
DH’s photos are gorgeous!!
I love living in Vermont and have a hard time imagining living elsewhere. I really enjoy seeing the seasons change and we do have a lovely fall. The photos I have taken here look a lot like yours except we tend to have more red and orange.
As long as I’m living near my family, it’s my favorite place!
I live in Barwon Heads (Victoria, Australia ) a small seaside village,but have been fortunate to have visited Fort Collins 3 years ago, and will be returning to Colorado in November. I love the mountains and the scenery you have, there is nothing to compare in my part of the world.
I like where I live (New England) well enough…but I wouldn’t pass up the chance to move somewhere with warmer winters!
Love the photos! I don’t know if i’m in my favorite place, because there are so many places I haven’t been and would like to go, but it’s home and I’m happy to be here. 🙂
My hubby and I currently live in Fort Wayne, but if I could pick any place to live I would pass the Eiffel Tower on the way to and fro every where, every day. I’m a dreamer when it comes to things like this…