A sense of place.

Glacier View Meadows HOA Offices.

Beyond the adjustments to altitude, weather, and growing conditions, it takes a while to get to know our neighborhood.

We move here because we enjoy the slow pace of life and the opportunities for silence. The mountains have stories to tell, The trees whisper to us in the breeze, and sometimes holler at us in the wind. We know how to listen for the wisdom of the world.

Not for cupcakes.
Learning about the human community is a different challenge. Our remoteness comes with a price for developing friendships, support groups, resources. Transportation and communication both require more intention, effort, time--as well as expense.

Granite from deep in the earth.

Keeping up with the demands of the seasons requires alertness, dirty hands, tired backs.

We soon discover all we've taken for granted in living in cities or larger towns. If we want to make contact, we have to initiate it ourselves. The community we grow is limited only by our imaginations, our energy, our own investments.

In it all, our lives are shaped by the wild things we live with, by the skies we live under, by the land we live in.

Nesting for the redwing blackbirds.

We know this kind of life is not for everyone. Those of us who choose to stay here have our resilience tested and toughened.

We wouldn't have it any other way.