How do we know it’s springtime along Colorado’s Front Range? How does anybody anywhere know it’s springtime? It’s because the dandelions are blooming, showing their bright and cheerful faces to the supraterranean world! 😊 I wonder if that’s true where you live, too. Because the Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) has spread from its original home … Continue reading Spring Arrives on the Front Range
What a difference water makes! It is too early to tell if the 20-plus year megadrought in the American Southwest will finally come to an end, but if one atmospheric river in California after the other as well as the recent 4 to 5 inches of rain in the greater Colorado Springs area are any … Continue reading Goings-on in the Garden
Between birding and gardening, I have not been able to settle down long enough to write a coherent story, so my post(s) about Taos, New Mexico, will have to wait. Spring is the time when birds migrate from their wintering to their breeding grounds. Some will build their nests, lay their eggs, and raise their … Continue reading Spring’s Pageant
I don’t know about you, but this winter seems to have kept its grip on us longer than usual. I realize this feeling is subjective, but my hunch is shared by several friends. Cold, dry, and windy conditions in March and parts of April kept the vegetation mostly brown, and the arrival of migratory birds … Continue reading Of Spring Birds, Blooms, and Feelings
Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; . . . sometimes on a sunny day it began even to be pleasant and genial, and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. (Charlotte Brontë … Continue reading Signs of Spring
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