Tea at the Brown Palace Hotel

I met up with Megan and her sister Katie for Tea at the Brown Palace Hotel. The hotel opened in 1892 and has a 8 story atrium. The tea takes place in the atrium accompanied by a harpist.

CSO Concert in Cheesman Park

It has become a tradition to attend the free Colorado Symphony Orchestra concert in the park and again Megan made one of her fantastic picnics. This year her sister, Katie, was visiting and joined us (see pic). Last year's concert rained out near the end and this year looked like it might also, but it held out and the symphony was able to play three selections:
Puts - Two Mountain Scenes
Copland - Suite from The Tender Land
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
This year there was a man with an easel set up. He painted throughout the concert then held up the final product after the last piece. We walked up to take a closer look - not bad for less than 2 hrs of painting. It sort of had a Van Gogh feel to it.

Lyle Lovett @ Red Rocks

I went to see Lyle Lovett at Red Rocks with Ellen, Joan and Dave. This was a song that isn't on any of his albums with very creative lyrics (poor video quality, but decent audio). For the song, he used a smaller group of performers and the mandolin player was from Duncanville, Texas.

Highlands Garden Cafe

Megan and I tried a restaurant in the Highlands area of Denver. It's similar to the Highlands area of Atlanta. The Highlands Garden Cafe is a home turned into a restaurant. In my Gabby Gourmet book it is ranked as "to die for" which is one below the top ranking of "flawless". We had the goat cheese quesadilla with lobster/mango topping as an appetizer. It was a fun, interesting combo. My entree was tuna. Compared to other 'to die for' rankings Megan and I have tried, I'm not sure I would rank this one in the same category. I think it may be up there due to the ambiance since most of the seating is outside in pretty gardens.

Cherry Creek Arts Festival

Every July 4th weekend Denver hosts an arts festival. I last made a blog entry regarding it in July 2005. I picked 2 new favorite artists this time:

1. This Into That - Jim Rosenau uses old hardback books to make bookshelves and bookcases. A very creative idea.

2. Click on picture below to go to artist's website.