Bear Creek Green Belt

Our home is across the street from a nature preserve of sorts. It's called the Bear Creek Green Belt and it stretches for miles across metro-Denver following the meandering Bear Creek. Besides being a sanctuary for countless wildlife, it's loaded with trails for hiking, biking, jogging, and horseback riding. Plus, it has two large ponds for fishing and a large creek that runs through it. My boys enjoy taking hikes there. Both Joi and I (separately and together), have taken our boys there many times in hot and cold weather. My boys enjoy making little boats out of scrap wood and throwing it into the creek from a bridge and watching it float past the rapids. While hiking there, we've seen geese, foxes, coyotes, snakes, ducks, muskrats, prairie dogs, and other interesting wildlife. We haven't seen any deer, elk, or beavers there yet, but the Bear Creek Green Belt website says that they have been spotted. It's awesome to live so close to such beautiful surroundings and to enjoy nature. This is what we moved to Colorado for. I wanted my boys to be closer to nature and do boys things. Here's a picture of my boys doing "boys things" at the Bear Creek Green Belt yesterday evening. That's Bear Creek in the background. And for those of you wondering...Yes, that's a pirate eye patch that Gage is wearing. That's my boy!

Here's another shot moments later as the sun started to set. It was so beautiful, I just had to share it. These were both taken on my cell phone...so the quality isn't the best.