Nebraska Sandhills: cont’d
There are so many little roadside potholes filled with ducks, waders, dippers and shorebirds, you’ll spend most of your time stopped with your binoculars at the ready.
Nebraska Sand Hills: Crescent Lake
Spring and fall are the best times to visit the Nebraska Sand Hills. Summer temperatures can get quite hot and winter is too blustery and cold. Bird migration times are best.
Paint Mines Park
Paint Mines canyon wall in the afternoon light. I’ve lived in Colorado more years than I want to mention, and I hadn’t heard about the El Paso county owned Paint Mines Interpretive Park near Calhan, CO. A few years ago,...
Autumn Leaf Tour 2022
Pick a week at the end of September, early October and you should find glorious colors in the Colorado mountains…just about anywhere.
Autumn Leaves: Continued
Hillside stripes with Gambel Oak (aka Scrub Oak) dominating With a bit more time, we range further south. This part of the state is renowned for fall foliage. The Million Dollar highway from Silverton to Ouray (Hwy. 550) is the...
Autumn Leaves of Colorado
Colorado Panorama The hardwood forests of the eastern states get all the love. People, foreign and domestic, come to see the wonderful fall foliage. And I don’t blame them. In October, 2014 we took a sweep through the upper Midwest...
Disaster aftermath: Nature heals
Finally a day to stay inside. May 11, and it’s snowing! As usual in Colorado we can’t complain about some moisture, unless it goes overboard like it did in September. We are still digging out. With the coming of spring,...
Anatomy of a Disaster
It wasn’t supposed to be this way! The August 2013 Scientific American published a map showing Colorado with a nearly zero percent chance of devastating floods. So much for that theory. By September 11, 2013 it began raining steadily through...