PEAK TO PEAK - The serene sign of Virgo calms the zodiac with her gentle essence. This sign signals the start of school and the end of the uproarious Leo summer. Synchronistically, Virgo welcomes astrologically the teacher of the stars, Saturn....

Life in Nature: Murder? Or simply Unkindness? NEDERLAND - While my walks in and around town in my nearly 30 years up here have always tended to be solitary, I have enjoyed the company of many different neighbors at various points along those...

the news is hell and so too is work and all else that it takes for us to survive another day but miraculously we have the afternoon off and so we plan a hike up up in the high peaks we park the car and wander through the woods the river is...

LYONS - They say it’s easiest to hurt the ones closest to you, and I can’t help but wonder why this is. Is it comfort that makes this a fact, or something deeper that’s not meant to be understood? My heart was broken a few days ago due to, in my...

we planted columbines in the high alpine dirt of my mother’s garden eight years ago now there is a grouping with blue outer petals with a white center there’s also a grouping with yellow outer petals and white insides they grow well sprouting in...

TUNGSTEN VALLEY - This month we begin a three-part series on getting people to Mars; landing people on Mars; and living on Mars. Why? Because the obscene budget bill that Congress just passed has mostly disposed of our space science, leaving NASA...

for a place consisting of a main street two gas stations a wild west history and these pine dotted peaks populated by those who’ve chosen to step away from society and most of the people in it there’s still a lot of love here despite the hurt...

PEAK TO PEAK - Peak summer is here, and the air is alight with wild energy!  While most of the migratory animals arrive in the late spring and early summer, there are a few more just now showing up or passing through, and their arrivals...

I look at the monstera growing by the front door and see it reaching to the light it is blooming outgrowing its pot with just weekly watering an amount of care so seldom that I have to set an alarm to remember to do it yet this bit of life it like...

Do not cook your best friend into a hot dog The greenhouse effect makes a car an oven in a few minutes. Graph: Frank Sanders for The Mountain-Ear. TUNGSTEN VALLEY - Update from the We Saw it Coming Department: Just a few days after last month’s...

COAL CREEK -- On the morning of June 24, 2025, I looked out of my bedroom window and saw movement through gaps among the branches of pine trees. The movement, coming from the road outside my house, appeared at first like a neighbor walking their dog. I couldn’t help but think that their combined gait looked strange… and then I realized it wasn’t a neighbor and their dog.

Leo the big hearted lion of the zodiac brings the heart of summer to all of the signs in the heavens. Leo is perfectly placed this time of year filling the kingdom with creativity and children. Mercury the messenger is reversing in the sign of the...

LOVELAND - As I sit on my deck, looking across the land filled with various trees and views of Mount Meeker, Longs Peak, and Mount Lady Washington, the sound of silence is disrupted by the distant sound of motorbikes. I don’t mind the disruption....

I try to meditate for my mind feels like a storm I sit on the hardwood floor and look straight ahead at first it is quiet I can feel into my breath the rise and fall of it the endless tide of air through us all but then a car alarm goes...

MOUNT BLUE SKY - Adaptation is the most basic yet prolific key to survival in absolutely any environment or situation, whether human-caused or natural. The inability to adapt generally spells the end, no matter what caused it.  All life as...

I remember the whole town quiet and then bright and loud it was not the fireworks alone nor was it the concept of the holiday that made this something I looked forward to all year but the fact that so many people here took an evening to pause our...

BLACK HAWK -- George Blevins has called Colorado’s Front Range his home for over half his life, moving in the early 1980s. He says the time in his adult life before then “hardly seems to count, especially since I’m 85 and I don’t remember all that...

PEAK TO PEAK - When it comes to purchasing a home in Colorado, radon may not be at the top of your list of concerns, but it should be. Radon is an invisible, odorless gas that can cause serious health risks if left unattended. The good news...

TUNGSTEN VALLEY - This month, the sun’s eleven-year activity cycle culminates with a peak in sunspot activity as its magnetic poles flip themselves over. That’s right, the sun’s magnetic field is only quasi-stable; its north and south magnetic...

I think about the number sixty million it is hard for me to understand it does a hillside of spring grass even contain sixty million individual leaves of grass I try something smaller there are one hundred thousand people in this city I live...