Here’s the wind pattern in the Denver, CO area. For those who don’t know, Denver sits adjacent to the Rocky Mountains making the city’s topography flat in comparison. Given that, you’ll no doubt make the connection between the wind pattern and landscape features. It’s fascinating to see how the wind screams down the mountains and …
Author Archives: Mike Rivera
Italian Doors
Here are all the doors I snapped during our trip to Rome, Florence, Montepulciano, and Montalcino in July, 2025. Yes, that’s right, I take photos of doors while on vacation. As a bonus, here’s the hand burned door our old Sonoma County CA house sported as well as our newly painted door at our current …
Impressed…But Only in the Slightest, Unimportant Way
Trump is clearly a liar, corrupt, inept, incurious, narcissistic, and probably a few other negative adjectives that aren’t coming to mind. But, damn it, he has a fantastic signature.
Wannabe Chef
Snowfall
We’ve had a weird first half to the 2024-2025 snow season in Denver. Cumulatively, this season’s 15.7” of snow isn’t far off the recent historical average of 18.6”. Variable differences, right? No biggie. But let’s take a closer look, shall we? Here are the average snowfall amounts, in inches, 1991-2020. September .8 October 3.9 November …
Another Day, Another Rush Anecdote
My go-to band, Rush, is never far from my daily existence. Spotify obviously has me pegged as a fan, Peloton rides will surprise me with a song from their catalogue (more of that please!), they pop up in movie soundtracks, and some lyrics have a knack for being spot on during particular situations. Most recently …
Bouldering
Living in Colorado, climbing is pretty popular—even on a Friday night when I’m writing this. Maybe I should pick it back up, but that’s for another time and another post. Right now, Reese is in her happy place bouldering. And while I hate the drive to get here (there’s another bouldering place way closer), at …
Heavywinter—Young Edition
This site has been around since 2004, though technically I got the domain in 2003. But I consider 2004 the true year I began to blog. I don’t write much anymore, but that’s gonna change (you’re in the presence of the proof yo!). The Wayback Machine has snapshots of the blog even after I deleted …
Ladies and Gentlemen, My Wife
All I did was switch out my jeans for sweats after I got home from work. An innocent wardrobe change. I had a brick red button down shirt and the sweats I pulled on just happened to be red too. I walk downstairs, my wife looks over, and announces “you look like a dirty pad.” …
Random Yard Projects
South Side Fence The house came with an old, rickety fence on the south side of the property. Our neighbors suddenly got a lot more light once it came down. Unfortunately for them, we do plan to put a new fence up though not as big. If you can actually make out a little black …