There’s an old joke about Colorado.  (No, not the one about waiting ten minutes for the weather to change, the other one.) Colorado has two seasons: Winter, and Construction.

There’s been some noise around Boulder this summer about the road improvement/widening projects going on, some of which is stimulus packages at work.  However you feel about all the roadfoolery going on at both the major north-south through ways of Broadway and 28th Streets, think back to Denver T-Rex project of yore, and how that screwed up the daily commute for anyone traveling between central/downtown Denver and the Denver Tech Center.

Still, T-Rex is considered a triumphant achievement in “transforming the way people in the metro Denver area commute within the areas of Interstates 25 and 225, then the Country’s 14th busiest intersection.” (Wikipedia)

To keep up with what road is being ripped apart, and where, visit these links to the City of Boulder’s Cone Zone.

• North Broadway Transportation Improvements Project – Iris to Norwood
• Broadway (Pine to Iris) Reconstruction Project
• Valmont Road lane closure west of 28th
• 28th Street and Valmont Road area closures(Transportation Work)

It’s official: It’s fawn season. Case in point, this little family of deer seen hanging out on a lawn in North Boulder’s Dakota Ridge neighborhood, at the corner of Lee Hill Road and Dakota Blvd.

For real estate and home slash architecture enthusiasts, summer means sampling some of Colorado’s finest homes by way of a home tour. In the past, Colorado home tourers flocked to the Parade of Homes. This year, the Parade has become the Denver Luxury Homes Tour . Still a great tour and flagship happening, the tour will feature custom homes all over the Denver Metro area, instead of sticking to a single neighborhood. The Tour will feature 27 homes from north (Niwot) and south (Castle Pines), and takes place June 5-July 5 on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

If you find yourself outside the Colorado Front Range, you might want to visit the Healthy Homes Tour and Fair in Avon, CO (in the Vail Valley). The Tour and Fair takes more of a whole-life approach, with ideas, products, and information on how to live sustainably beyond the structure of one’s home.  The fair is free, and so is the transportation, provided by the Town of Avon bus system.

Even while summer is waning, you can still see some great homes in Colorado, as the Denver Tour of Solar Homes takes place on October 9, and is a showcase of what’s new and possible in  the realm of solar living.

Enjoy!

Photo by Flickr–Creative Commons, by pnwra