Even though the blue spruce pollen covers the land and the house and infuses the air with a chalky yellow bluegreen powder there are still sights.

And they are still slightly wild.

When I gave a friend a ride to his son's soccer game that was at Bergen Meadow Elementary school the other day, he said, "Well, you picked a nice place to live."

I thought, yeah, that's true.

As we drove up the hill on Sugarbush Drive, I pointed out the deer lounging in the forest.

It wasn't something he saw much of in Denver.