NW flow is carrying moisture across the forecast area with occasional snow flurries that favor the northern and central Colorado mountains today/tonight and to a lesser degree the San Juans. A strong jet is pushing ridge top winds today then will die down tonight. ...
[caption id="attachment_26030" align="alignleft" width="294"] Muppet and Dolly Parton (aka Cheavens and Berrier)[/caption] Everyone has a favorite Christmas story they like to revisit this enchanted time of year. Whether it’s Rudolph, the Magi, Clarence the Angel or the Grinch, there is a tale that resonates with us,...
[youtube]http://youtu.be/_-QN8F0gnvM[/youtube] The only people in Telluride who were not completely thrilled about the snow falling Friday and Saturday were the snowboarders competing in the World Cup Snowboardcross races. Snow does one thing to a race course—it makes it slower, which is exactly the opposite of what...
[caption id="attachment_25919" align="alignleft" width="150"] Scott, Zudnick, k26[/caption] Trawling the Internet for words about winners, these from a guy named Damon Hill popped up. "Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog." Especially if that dog is Zudnick. Only...
When we leave Telluride, we often encounter those who are transfixed by our existence. You get to live where? How high is that?! Traveling reminds us that our life in the mountains is unique, very unique in fact. This is particularly the case in winter,...
Editor’s note: In his doctoral dissertation, Pastor Pat Bailey of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church is claiming the need for a re-visioning of the Christian church’s theology and its understanding of mission, the need for a more natural, integrative theology and for an earth-focused, contextual approach...
[caption id="attachment_25905" align="alignright" width="240"] Moon-Ocean image[/caption] Sailors, fisherman, surfers, and Inuits are but a few of the communities that have an intimate relationship with the tidal effect in coastal environments. For surfers, the difference between high tide, when the water’s shoreline edge appears to move onshore, and...
December 13 to 20, 2012 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Saturn Evening: Mars, Jupiter When I think about the odds of my birth – or the birth of anything or anyone – I know they are just about as good as winning last month’s...
[caption id="attachment_25932" align="alignleft" width="300"] Bill Zeffiro and Carole J. Bufford[/caption] Wednesday, 12/12/12, would have been Frank Sinatra's 97th birthday. Though he died in 1998, the night proved once again that Frank's musical legacy is as fresh as tomorrow. Sinatra, as interpreted by a host of mostly young...
