I live in Golden, CO which is a small town just West of downtown Denver.  As you can imagine, some of the best things about living in my town are the beautiful views, hiking opportunities and the wildlife I see nearly every day I am lucky enough to be home. Here area a few of my favorites!

I am looking forward to seeing where my fellow bloggers live via the WordPress Phoneography Challenge!

This is a hiking/trail running trail called Mt. Galbraith – it’s a great 5 mile (ish) balloon loop that is 5 minutes from my house and is one of my local faves.  The views of Golden are amazing from this trail!

This second image is of a summer day sunrise.  I can’t believe I was actually up this early to capture this from our deck!

We also have a very large herd of elk (about 70) who pass by our front yard at least 50 days, if not more, a year.   They are the reason I love Golden so much.  Here is an image of some of them resting in a meadow near our house.  There has to be a Far Side caption to describe this scene! lol.