Boulder - Lili on the Loose

1 01, 2024

My Top Instagrams from 2023

By Lili|January 1st, 2024|Categories: Year in Review|Tags: 2023, Boulder, Broadway, Colorado, CORF, Death, instagram, play, Renaissance Fair, RenFair, Seattle, Spa, St. Julien, Tessa, Theater, Washington|0 Comments

This was a tough year. Starting with recovering from Wrist Surgery, plenty of physical therapy, and end ending with the death of my beloved Tessa. My Instagram top 9 is filled with photos from her last few weeks, and many comments from friends and family morning her passing. Thank you. Beyond that, my Instagram was filled with photos from my NYC trip, but it seems beyond a work trip to Seattle, my more interacted posts were from local activities: the Colorado Renaissance Fair, a Spa day at the St. Julien, and catching Beetlejuice in Denver (a few days after

1 01, 2023

My Top Instagrams from 2022

By Lili|January 1st, 2023|Categories: Year in Review|Tags: 2022, Boulder, instagram, Jordan, Spa, The Fray|0 Comments

Let's see. Two posts on The Fray, photos from years ago. 5 Posts around my ill fated trip to Jordan. Two around Spa days. And one on my lovely trip to the BVIs. It was a good and weird year. Here is hoping my wrist heals from surgery and my injury from Jordan so I can get back out there.

1 07, 2019

June 2019 Recap

By Lili|July 1st, 2019|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: 2019, Boulder, Colorado, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, DMNS, Eddie Izzard, Fiddler on the Roof, Good Omens, Last Seen, Legacies, Leonardo da Vinci, Meow Wolf, Natura Obscura, North America, play, Podcasts, Spa, Spa Day, Twelfth Night, Vampier Diaries|0 Comments

June was a very busy month for me! I once again attended the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and this year saw Twelfth Night! Later in the month, I saw Fiddler on the Roof which was so moving! I also took my first day off in a while to have a fun Spa day! I've always wanted to see Eddie Izzard, and managed to get a ticket to see him. He was hilarious and one of the best comedians I've seen. So glad I was able to see him this tour. I had two really good museum days. The first was seeing

23 12, 2018

October 2018 Recap

By Lili|December 23rd, 2018|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: 2018, Ariel, Banjo Billy, Boulder, Brown Palace, Bullet Journal, bus, Bus Tour, Colorado, comedy, crime, Denver, Denver Botanical Gardens, Doctor Who, Ghost Hunting, ghost stories, Ghost Tour, Ghost Tours, Glow at the Garden, Halloween, Harry Potter, Hocus Pocus, Little Mermaid, Molly Brown, North America, Owl, Pumpkin Nights, Sabrina, stories, tour, Victorian Horrors, Winifred Sanderson|0 Comments

Fall is my favorite season. Its also Tessa's as she loves to eat leaves: View this post on Instagram It's going to snow tomorrow so made sure Tessa got to do her favorite fall activity: leaf eating. A post shared by Lili (@liliontheloose) on Oct 13, 2018 at 3:07pm PDT What's new this month is that I discovered Bullet Journaling this month. Essentially it's using a journal as a productivity tool with some art thrown in. Of course, that meant many trips to craft stores, and discovering AliExpress (and buying way too many .10 stickers and washi tape.)

17 10, 2017

September 2017 Recap

By Lili|October 17th, 2017|Categories: Blog Recaps and Roundups|Tags: 30 Rock, Addams Family, Boulder, Colorado, Corline, Corpse Bride, Dead Like Me, Death in Paradise, dinosaurs, fall, farmer's market, Halloween, Hogwarts, Hogwarts Express, Kingsman, Practical Magic, Ramen, Sleepy Hollow, Soup, triceratops|0 Comments

Fall is my favorite season! Here are some reasons why! It's time to go back to Hogwarts! And this year was the year of "19 Years Later..." Halloween Decorating can start! I was excited that Dino Skeletons are big this year. (Tessa is not a fan.) And it's soup weather! (Or at least it should be. It was 80 degrees when we went to go get ramen.) And its the best time for farmer's markets and visiting my college town of Boulder. Recommended Reading Lili on the Loose This month I recalled some of 2016's fall memories like this beautiful fall

11 10, 2016

Local Haunts: Banjo Billy’s Ghost Bus

By Lili|October 11th, 2016|Categories: Attractions & Sights, Local, Travel|Tags: Banjo Billy, Boulder, bus, Bus Tour, Colorado, comedy, crime, Denver, Ghost Tour, stories, tour|0 Comments

Source: Vince Darcangelo Another one of my Halloween traditions is to take Banjo Billy's Ghost Tour in Boulder. This is all about the experience. The bus is made of wood, and inside are an eclectic mix of seats. (While the saw-horse is a novelty, it is not comfy enough to sit in on the entire ride.) The decor is also very mixed with christmas lights, buttons, tassels, disco balls, and other kitschy decorations hot glued here and there. The horn has a mixture of sounds from a cat-call like whistle to the sound of a barking dog.

30 09, 2016

Fall Colours – Yellow

By Lili|September 30th, 2016|Categories: Local, Nature & Outdoors, Photography|Tags: Boulder, Colorado, Colors, crunchy leaves, dog, fall, Fall Colors, fall leaves, leaves, North America, Photo Friday, USA, Yellow|0 Comments

By my old condo, there was a ditch with many trees. The wind would blow all the leaves from the neighborhood into this ditch, and it would reach 3 feet high in some places. It was one of my favorite places during the fall. Huge yellow leaves up above, crunchy brown ones below. I enjoyed kicking and jumping in the leaves, while my dog loved jumping and eating the leaves. Seriously, she eats them up like potato chips. Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

2 09, 2016

Banjo Billy’s Pom-Pom Disco Ball

By Lili|September 2nd, 2016|Categories: Local, Photography|Tags: Banjo Billy, Boulder, bus, Bus Tour, Colorado, comedy, crime, Denver, Ghost Tour, Halloween, North America, Photo Friday, stories, tour, USA|0 Comments

Banjo Billy's is a local tour operator that does ghost and beer tours of Boulder and Denver. I go every October for their ghost bus tour. Since its the first Friday in September I can now officially start planning for Halloween! Every Friday Lili shares her favorite photography & the stories behind the photos.

22 08, 2016

Museum Monday: Archaeopteryx

By Lili|August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Museums, Travel|Tags: Archaeopteryx, Boulder, Colorado, fossil, Museum of Natural History, North America, University of Colorado, USA|0 Comments

I once saw a replica of the Berlin Archaeopteryx in a friends house. It was so beautiful. I later stumbled upon this replica at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Archaeopteryx was one of the oldest fossils that showed the feather plumage that dinosaurs had. Museum Monday is an every other week series about museum news, objects, and reviews.

20 05, 2016

Isaac Slade of The Fray at Boulder’s Fox Theater

By Lili|May 20th, 2016|Categories: Concerts, Local, Photography|Tags: 2011, Boulder, Colorado, Concert, Fox Theater, grand piano, Isaac Slade, music, North America, Photo Friday, piano, The Fox, The Fray, USA|0 Comments

I've gone to some four dozen The Fray shows starting all the way before they were signed with Epic and were considering quitting. I've enjoyed being their unofficial fan photographer, and organizer of the first The Fray fansite (which at some point I'll get around to putting it back online.) In May 2011, I saw a small concert at Boulder's The Fox Theater for two little known bands. But I knew they were a code-word for The Fray! So gathering up my friends we scored front row and I got this great photo of Isaac Slade singing his heart out on top