Ken & Mary Deshaies's (kentheauthor) Blog

It's true.  We are having a very wet summer.  I have been incredibly lucky.  Played more golf than ever this summer and never been rained out.  Climbed a 14 thousand foot mountain (Mt. Bierstadt) and did a 7-hour hike and climb last Sunday, and enjoyed mild, sunny weather both times.  And the rai...

Monsoons.  Aren't those what occurs in far East countries close to the sea?  Weather patterns that continue for weeks at a time, where you don't dare venture outdoors if not absolutely necessary?  Well, we have been getting an extraordinary amount of rain over the past few weeks.  July rain was n...

At the NRO concert last night in Breckenridge Colorado, Charles (Chas) Wetherbee perfored out of his mind.  He perforemd an original work composed for him by Jonathan Leshnoff, both former students of the NRO.  15-20 minutes without stopping, a fluid masterpiece on his chosen violin.  After the c...

One of my favorite conductors is JoAnn Falletta.  Of course, she is the favorite of others, as well.  The New York Times, for example, called her ". . . one of the finest conductors of her generation."  So, why am I enthralled?  Well, for one, she has performed here in Summit County the last two ...

The Town of Frisco, which took over management of the Frisco Historic Park from the Historical Society earlier this year, has committed over $100,000 to maintaining the Park.  It not only provides a great source of history (with early century log cabins and a museum), but also is a location for m...

Vail Resorts became the second largest corporate buyer of wind energy on Tuesday when it announced it would offet 100 percent of its total electricity use by purchasing wind energy.  That amounts to 152,000 megawatt hours of wind energ per year.  This will (according to the EPA) avoid more than 2...

We always knew it was that good.  Our Lake Dillon Theatre was recently honored with two distinctions.  In May, the Denver Post theater critic, John Moore, named the Theatre Company as one of the 10 best in Colorado outside the Denver area.  Our friend, Chris Alleman, performing arts director, say...

If you haven't seen your home, your city, your market, from the sky, you should.  It's an illuminating experience.  Didn't go up in a plane today, but we did climb from Copper Mountain (9300 feet) over the Ten Mile Range (where we crossed over at 12300 feet) and down into Frisco.  Seven hours - r...

Last week, my daughter and son-in-law, my brother-in-law, and a good friend, climbed Mt. Bierstadt, one of over 50 peaks on Colorado that are over 14,000 feet (this one 14,060).  It's not such a big thing - unless you haven't done it for years, or are not in good health, or have a prevailing fear...

If you are a writer, consider youself an author, can't let the pen and paper get far away, then you know what I went through.  Since I was a kid, I have thought I had a book in me (perhaps several).  Had a wonderful creative writing class as a senior in high school, and that is the only teacher w...