Location: Cheyenne Canyon
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This past weekend Bruce and I escaped the city for a couple hours to spend an afternoon picnicking in the mountains. We loaded up on cheese, bread, and peaches at the farmer’s market that morning so we pulled some extra goodies from home to make a lunch date of it! After some hesitation of “when” to actually pick the tomatoes off my tomato plant, I picked this one off for our lunch – our first homegrown tomato in the flesh! We also grabbed a bottle of Wente wine to feel like fancy adults 😉
We drove to a trail head and grabbed our stuff. We clearly were not the only ones with the great idea to escape a bit of the heat and go to the canyon, so we walked a bit along side the river until we found a quiet spot for our lunch. Just sitting outside, listening to the river run & the aspen leaves quake was so relaxing. We made huge delicious sandwiches, talked, rested, and sipped our wine. It was a good break from the quick pace of our day to days. We only headed back when the storm clouds rolled in, the thunder roared, and the rain came down. Even walking back in the rain, smelling the fresh air & feeling the big drops on our skin, I was reminded just how beautiful this world is.
Maybe we’ll make a habit of summer picnics out here by the river – with wine because “why not?!”
XOXO, ELIZABETH
Homegrown tomatoes are just the best! So worth the long and painful wait. And we love taking picnics to new places around here, way cheaper than a restaurant and way more romantic too. 😉
YAY! I know! It was a blast!
now this is my kind of picnic! <3
p.s. those cutting boards are stunning.
p.p.s we have the same blanket! 🙂
Oh yay! Twinning!!
What a fun picnic! There is nothing like homegrown tomatoes. My mom used to grow them and had a war every summer with our golden retriever who would eat them off the plants before she could pick them. He also ate our persimmons and could peel the skin off and eat the inside of our tangelos. He was a special dog. haha.
hahaha! Special and sneaky 😉 he thought you were growing them for him!
I would love to picnic, but my fiancee has never really liked the idea much because he’s afraid of fleas, haha. 😛 Maybe if I show him this post of how there’s plenty of places we can picnic without really tall grass that he might be more likely to want to partake in it.
Great post! It looks very relaxing and it seems like you had a lot of fun!
hahah! That is the nice part of Colorado – no bugs!!!
Wow! Picnicking and wine, my favorite! Beautiful photos!
Thanks so much! And Yes! Picnics with wine!!