Not all green-leaning folks fit under one large umbrella. Turns out there are shades of green, real differences among those who love Mother Nature and want to save the planet. In this article which appeared in Grist, David Roberts parses the term “environmentalist," explains the differences among...
High clouds floating through today from a closed low off the California coast that is spinning warm air into western Colorado and carrying impressive moisture on SW flow.. But with weak storm dynamics (low vorticity/vertical instability), warm temps & mostly orographics for moisture production the...
[caption id="attachment_46739" align="aligncenter" width="600"] X-Country, Lizard Head Pass[/caption] Kris Abrams is a nature-based psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner with Cedar Tree Healing Arts. I found her story, “10 Reasons Why We Feel So good in Nature” in EcoWatch and thought it was well worthing sharing – before or after...
Our dry weather will soon be history with the start of another storm cycle carried on a moist Pacific trough moving into the Colorado mountains beginning mid to late day Saturday. A cold front associated with the system will make things interesting. Snowfall should begin...
[caption id="attachment_46479" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sunny Colorado[/caption] Funny how sometimes a seemingly negative event can have positive effects. Case in point: our primary credit card was one of many recently compromised, resulting in a new credit card number. Today I was on the phone with Jeanne Bassett...
Southwest Colorado Resort of Telluride receives 33" in latest snowstorm [caption id="attachment_46427" align="aligncenter" width="191"] Snow god Ullr smiles on Telluride.[/caption] After a fairly dry fall, Norse snow god Ullr decided to smile on the Southwest Colorado town of Telluride. The ski area is now blanketed in snow after...
I don't watch TV much. I don't really watch TV at all—we don't have a cable or satellite account, so the only programs I see are on the iPad, the occasional series that was popular enough to replay on Netflix or YouTube snippets of Jon...
[caption id="attachment_45695" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wilson Range behind Mountain Village[/caption] "Telluride? Big mistake- you"ll never leave!" I had stayed for a few days with my friend Rico in Aspen, was headed for some solo camping in the Canyonlands, and got a noon-ish start because of a mid-fall snowstorm...
[caption id="attachment_45324" align="aligncenter" width="704"] A group of Waura Indians fish in the Puilanga Lake near their village in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil's Mato Grosso state. 2005.[/caption] Rena Silverman, met up with the photographer Sebastiao Salgado, in New York City on Thursday and conducted a...
[caption id="attachment_45287" align="alignright" width="199"] The start of the trail[/caption] When you have kids, you give up a few things. Sleep. Money. Time. You accept the trade-off: deprivation for family. Andy and I were down with all of that. But one thing we weren’t okay with giving...
