Sightings @ Squaw Creek

The quirky makes life juicy, no?

--a woman swimming in the outdoor heated pool wearing a wet suit and a thick stocking hat.

--children huddling inside a hollowed out snow cave.

--a famous poet at the next table.

--a $20 tip on a modest dinner tab...left by a man who used to bus dishes.

--a 100 foot evergreen draped with white lights.

--Dickensian troupes singing carols throughout the lodge...squeezing past the wine bar.

--A lounge pianist with golden fingers who reveres the American standard songbook and knows some of the composers' relatives.

--a woman walking with a staff feet shod in red cowgirl boots.