GILPIN COUNTY - Change is in the air! These last few weeks have had me shifting from mornings out on the warm, sunny porch to a cozier spot inside. The view with coffee has gone from the dance and play of hummingbirds to dustings of snow on Baldy...
today there’s snow on the mountains for the first time since spring it’s been a long summer it seems those months of heat get longer every year but the winter always comes back my mom says there is just one yellow columbine left in a garden once...
clouds like foaming tide lapping at the foothill shore even on a day when the air quality here is the fifth worst in the world this place is still so beautiful despite the grocery prices and the ever reaching fire smoke and the red eyed traffic...
ALLENSPARK - The day was mostly sunny with a random afternoon shower. I received an invitation to a 32-year-long tradition that I had been wanting to attend for a while. Around 1917, Katherine Lindsay moved west and started a business. Lindsay...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - America had it too good, for too long. We used to prevent people from getting contagious diseases; we had affordable food and consumer goods; and our nation’s scientific expertise and accomplishments were the envy of the...
PEAK TO PEAK - The great wheel of the year has turned and the Autumnal Equinox leads the zodiac into a new season. Day and night are equal throughout the Earth. The balanced sign of the stars Libra guides us forward. Libra's strength has been...
It’s not close to Christmas but I’m longing for how it felt back when I was a kid on the night before the big day the whole neighborhood and all our dogs would walk through the December snow up the mountain we lived around up to the windblown...
NEDERLAND - While bird migration has been happening for countless millennia, it has only been in the last couple centuries that much of mankind understood they even occurred, much less how the act was navigationally performed. Indigenous cultures...
GRAND LAKE - I practice compassion and empathy, but I find it difficult to resonate with certain people. As I walked through downtown Grand Lake, Colorado, I decided to find ways of connecting with people, with everyone. I drew my attention to...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - This is the second of a three-part series on sending people to Mars, landing them on Mars, and living on Mars. We’re covering this because the wretched new federal budget bill has NASA supporting a megalomaniacal stunt to put...
and I guess life and death are two sides of the same coin or maybe there is no coin at all just a glowing pulse some sacred jagged piece of the universe that’s sits within us all and maybe that light comes and goes as it’s meant to no matter what...
CENTRAL CITY - At this year’s Cemetery Crawl at the Catholic Cemetery, Emma Berg stepped into the role of Ellen Flynn, telling Flynn’s story with a precision that comes from hours of research and practice. The audience, huddled near a...
ELDORA - The Indian Peaks Bird Count ran its 44th breeding bird count during June and the first two weeks of July. A dedicated group of skilled volunteers hike and/or drive roads and trails within a specific area counting birds they see and hear....
COAL CREEK -- Roger and Lori Drienka have lived together in the Colorado mountain community for nearly 50 years, with Lori’s connections to the state reaching back generations. In 1936, her grandfather built a teepee near his family’s property in...
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK - The elk and deer are doing it. The moose are doing it. I’ve seen bighorn sheep doing it. Horses do it. Heck, even your cat does it! All kinds of animals including reptiles and snakes do it, but what exactly is...
maybe it’s true that we come into the world and leave it alone but maybe in this loneliness we are not yet formed maybe the only time we are truly alive is when we are not alone maybe it’s only in the eyes and hearts of others that we ever really...
BOULDER COUNTY - Homeowners and prospective buyers in unincorporated Boulder County should be aware of new regulations that went into effect on May 13, 2025, limiting the size of new and expanded homes. The changes mark a major shift in how...
LONGMONT - According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a tiff refers to having a petty quarrel. From my experience, nearly every quarrel between people is a tiff, a minor, relatively unimportant disagreement. As a 45-year-old human, I realize tiffs...
if the four billion years that make up this planet’s life were imagined as a twenty four hour span and humans were juxtaposed on this projected span of time after all of our two hundred thousand years alive would exist for only a mere three...
TUNGSTEN VALLEY - “It’s done, we think, by DARPA and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. Those materials are put in jet fuel. I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it. We’re bringing on somebody who’s gonna think only about...