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.