. . . is to spend a morning on the prairie east of town, with a view of our local mountain range in full view. This is especially true after one to two inches of rain have fallen on the region, the temperature is comfortable, the sun shining, and the wind nearly absent. The earth … Continue reading My Idea of Bliss . . .
I am still trying to process the myriad photographs and thoughts about a recent out-of-state road trip (please stay tuned). We didn’t return to Colorado until April 15 and the weeks since seem to have flown by. It’s hard to fathom that the month is nearly over. To remind myself of the local goings-on, I … Continue reading April Snapshots
Living at an elevation of 6,000 feet along Colorado's Front Range, we can expect frost until the middle of May. This does not preclude earlier harbingers of spring, some of which have made a welcome appearance in the previous two days. Wir leben auf 1.800 Meter Höhe am Ostrand der Rocky Mountains in Colorado, wo … Continue reading (Almost) Wordless Wednesday
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
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