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Life in Nature: Autumn icon

As autumn arrives in Colorado, the thunderous head-butts of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep echo through Waterton Canyon, signaling the dramatic rutting season.

Some Words for the Week

I wake up a little late and get ready for the day in a bit of a rush

Mountain-Ear columnist Omayra Acevedo says goodbye

Mountain Spirit Astrology: Sagittarius

This Sagittarius season, purge your past emotional residue

Life in Nature: Whaling in the wetlands

I try to get in some nature when and where I can. A recent errand run down the hill found me at a favorite wetland “go-to,” the Walden and Sawhill Ponds open space trails.

Some Words for the Week

I drive past the reservoir and as always I am in awe of all that water catching light

Healing after the fire

“I’ve never been in a fire or flood, or hurricane or anything. I know the businesses of course, but I’m not really good friends with any of the owners or employees,” said Tommy. 

Today, I invite you to travel with me along the Colorado River, as it reminds me to go with the flow (yes, pun intended), while I navigate a mixture of emotions and decisions.

Some Words for the Week

a lake will fill in over time as the plants bloom and die and bloom again

Nederland November Night Skies

Here’s how these shots work. A probe coasts through space, past a planet (or the moon). The probe is weightless; it feels no forces.

Some Words for the Week

and maybe all dirt is really the stuff of graves for everything now stands on what was here before

Peak to Peak Climate: Roadside tree kill

The Big Picture: Burning fossil fuels boosts atmospheric CO2 and the climate warms and dries. Meanwhile, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) protects highway safety by applying chemicals to reduce road slickness in freezing conditions.

Some Words for the Week

and in describing what was lost at Brightwood Music many of the words are the same as if I were to be describing human anatomy for imagine the whittled necks of violins the shining sanded bodies of the guitars the tremolo arms of some punk’s...

Life in Nature: Power of the peck

As well known as the sound is, the behavior...

Mountain Spirit Astrology

The Great Mystery is upon us. The Sun has moved into Scorpio, the ruler of birth and death.

Some Words for the Week

Poem about the fire and for the fire and then there was light a hungry glow eating up more than just a building but the collective memory of this town for each place is host to so much each place is more than just walls and wood and windows each...

Discover Colorado: Letting go of autumn

CENTRAL COLORADO - After learning about the Caribou Village Shopping Center fire in Nederland, my heart broke. Every time I think about the animals at the Wild Bear Center, I cry. I can’t imagine what they must have been feeling before they...

Life in Nature: Practice makes perfect

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK - Getting involved in various events selling my nature photography provides me with many opportunities to talk about the work, animal behavior, and the stories behind the images. One image has drawn great discussion...

Some Words for the Week

In a recent conversation with a friend about my writing career and all the rejection and disappointment that it can sometimes involve he reminded me of the definition of insanity being the act of doing something over and over again expecting...

Nederland October Night Skies

TUNGSTEN VALLEY - This is the last of a three-part series on traveling to Mars; landing on Mars; and living on Mars. We’re looking at this because the Administration’s budgetary grotesquery mostly strips NASA of science missions, while directing a...

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