I Like #30 Boulder edition

Welcome to week 30 of I Likes! Boulder CO edition.

We spent 5 days checking out CO as a future home and today's post is picture heavy... grab a cuppa tea and join me...

 I'll start with our last day visiting the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)  which was in a modern building designed by I M Pei.

Look at the sculptural lines within the building. I want to work there and I'm not even a research scientist!

But my husband is.... and here he is against one window. That view is real y'all. Imagine spending your days working here to bring knowledge to the world.
Climate is worth studying. Knowledge is important.  Please respect nature before it's too late.  

Next "like" is chocolate!

 * I Liked this chocolate store's offerings...and the store was dedicated to chocolate.

Now That's a "chocolate cake" !!
and I Liked these "chocolate labs"

Well the labs were sold out but there are chocolate cows, pigs, ladybugs and many other cuties.

* I Like this sculpture... a blown glass bowl put on a piece of wood while the glass was still hot and flexible so it molded to the wood. Cool!

*I Liked this table inlaid with turquoise! Want!

I saw it in Estes, and I must have gotten altitude sickness as it is a way cute mountain town, and midway through, walking through town I ... wait for it.... "lost my will to shop" That's when you know I'm not well. 
But I did not lose my will to photograph beauty so enjoy these few pictures of the town

It was surprisingly warm as flurries of snow fell.

 *I Liked the Celestial Tea Factory

holding onto my cup of tea!

Now THAT's a cup of tea!
They have lovely artistic teapots and samples of many teas to enjoy while you wait for a tour.
We waited for the tour but when they gave out 50 hairnets made with some toxic smelling chemicals I had to bow out.

The factory was quiet for Sunday anyway...


Note these lovely teapots...

Read some of these fortunes and see the little man on top? Each teapot was unique and artistic... little useful sculptures. 

* I Liked this woman's hair... a lot!

She was minding her own business at a cafe table and I had to ask about her teal and purple hair!!!
Covet!
Kayla laughed and said she was just in NYC and was stopped every block by someone loving her hair!
The answer, she said was to bleach her brown locks, then use toner, then color for glossy results!

*I Like looking at possible homes, and the agent Kelly Moye was awesome in her choices for us. At the favorite house I saw this gully across the street with painted stones

I spoke to the owner who said her daughter painted them, also the tree branches on a dead tree behind the house. Wow, automatic Artist Friends!

  *I Like shopping with friends

*I Like visiting with friends

*I like taking spousies with Boulders in Boulder

on a boulder in Boulder's pedestrian main street

full of shopping and restaurants and performers

 Please enjoy this video... this young man who must have been quite young with an enormous future ahead of him, was one of many street performances we watched.
ENJOY!
(If it doesn't open, see it here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LykmzidT8KI)

Now that you've seen some of my Likes for the last week, Please visit these fine folks also doing posts about things that made them happy this week! As always, if you do an I Like post for Thursdays, let me know... and you'll join a great community here!

1.http://forestpoodles
2.http://littlepenguinquilts
3.http://imworkingonaproject
4.http://3poodlesandanana
5.maryinpeoriahandmade.blogspot.com
6.https://canadianneedlenana.blogspot.com/
7. https://craftscaviescontras  
8.http://www.mmmquilts.com/2017/04/i-likelove-2.html

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