GIVE A HOOT
Who Lives in Your Backyard?
$24.95, at Wild Birds Unlimited, Boulder Book Store and Tattered Cover
Naturalist Susie Mottashed is not afraid to draw what she sees flitting through her backyard, and figures you shouldn’t be either. Her homey nature journal helps you figure out what you’re seeing and learn to create your own field sketches for fun as you wonder around Colorado’s wild spaces.
MILE-HIGH SIPPING
Snow Cap
Tamayo
1400 Larimer St., Denver
720-946-1433
You’ve been nice all season, so belly up to the bar at Tamayo for some naughty grown-up eggnog. Dreamed up for the Convention & Visitors’ Bureau’s Mile High Spirit promotion, the Snow Cap has crème de cacao AND vanilla vodka. Not to your taste? Check in at milehighholidays.com to see how 20 other Denver- area restaurants capture the holiday spirit in a glass.
ART SMART
2006 ArtScape Collector’s Guide
Available at museums, galleries and artscapecolorado.com
Charles Whitley figured all the other big-name art communities have gallery guides, so why not Colorado? He launched ArtScape a few years ago, and the slick, back-pocket-sized book has grown with each publication. It now includes tips for when you’re gallery hopping in 14 art districts and neighborhoods around the state. New this year: Boulder, Breckenridge, Original Aurora and Salida.
