While my friends and fellow beeks are dealing with snow and cold in the Northeast, we are enjoying a bit of spring-like weather here in the West. As we meteorologists say: “Trough (cold) in the East, Ridge (warm) in the West” (and vice-versa). Here in the Colorado Front Range, a Read more…
The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the official start of the Northern Hemisphere Winter. This year here in Colorado, the Solstice occurs at 4:03 pm on December 21st. While there’s no denying that it is the shortest day (and longest night) of the year Read more…
After a long and spectacular fall, winter weather finally arrived in full force. On Monday morning at 9:30 am, it was 68 degrees. By 1:30 pm, it was 23 degrees. Temps were sub-zero Wednesday night and we got our first real snow of the season this week. Going from highs Read more…
When my wife and I got married, I was finishing up graduate school and our “honeymoon” consisted of driving a car and a pickup truck pulling a U-Haul trailer from Montana to Vermont in 3 days. So, after 25 years, it was time to take a real vacation and the Read more…
We’ve had a beautiful summer with no long stretches of extremely hot weather but we’ve some impressive downpours. This past week, we got over an inch of rain in less than an hour. As Diana says, it’s been more like a Montana summer than a Colorado one. The gardens have Read more…
When I was a kid growing up in Rhode Island, my dad had a vegetable garden in our backyard. The most fun thing about that was in the fall after everything was harvested and it was just bare dirt. My brother and I would turn it into a battlefield of Read more…
When I was growing up, my grandparents had a summer home on Echo Lake in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. It was an idyllic place on a dirt road surrounded by fields of wildflowers and woods. The view was much like that from the postcard below taken just up the Read more…