About
Sipapu
Greetings from Tina & Zell (and cattle dogs Paxi and Coda)! This blog focuses on our home and property in central Colorado. We have 39+ acres in classic pinyon-juniper habitat at about 7000′ in the rain shadow of the northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. It is a very arid area, sometimes referred to as one of the “banana belts” of Colorado. By the way, “sipapu” is a Hopi word that represents a portal into the next world. That’s how we feel when we are there—we’re in another (and better) world. We use the term with the utmost respect, although we acknowledge that it seriously smacks of cultural appropriation.
If you’re interested, you can learn more than anyone probably wants or needs to know about the pinyon/juniper environment of Sipapu here: Central Colorado’s pinyon/juniper habitat.
© 2008 Tina Mitchell
Tina you rock! The photos and info are amazing. Nice shot of the river…and the house. This blog makes me miss life in the Siesta Lowliner.
oh, you guys, I LOVE your blog!! how fascinating! so much better than the usual, boring, self-absorbed blog-blather!!!
….and I LOVE your house!!!
I hope to see you someday…it’s been waaaay too long.
the kat
Beautiful work Tina!
Thanks for posting on Bluebird about it.
Do you ever have Chimney Swifts there?
Good birding, Larry H. Joplin MO.
Alas, Larry–no Chimney Swifts. We occasionally get White-throated Swifts chattering overhead in post-breeding dispersal. But the few CHSWs that we have in the CO area are generally more urban-oriented.
Tina