When your 40th birthday falls eleven days before the New Year, it seems like an appropriate time to reflect. Reflect and resolve. Are you where you thought you’d be? What more do you hope for in the next year or years to come? A deluge of...
[caption id="attachment_26567" align="alignright" width="214"] Happy New Year!, American Littoral Society[/caption] For this coming year, I have several fishes – I mean wishes – for the ocean. Here are a few: • Less plastic Plastic is one of the most persistent pollutants in the ocean, and one that can...
Disclaimer: EcoAction's online challenge has nothing whatsoever to do with Madonna's 1991 documentary of the same name. The brainchild of the younger folks at EcoAction Partners, Fiona Smith and EAP friends announce Truth or Dare. For some, the initiative will trigger a walk down memory lane...
Editor’s note: It’s no secret. The Telluride region is dog heaven. Unless you are one of our furry friends who gets caught in the maw of neglect and abuse. Then heaven is on hold until Second Chance Humane Society comes to the rescue. Second Chance...
It was probably the most meaningful gift I gave anyone over the holidays. I spent days putting together pictures of my husband and kids, rounding up photos of my brothers and their families, and it took hours to match all the faces to the birthdays...
Weak surface high pressure is over Colorado this morning keeping cold air over the region with zero or below temps in the mountains and lower valleys. Air temperatures will increase during the day along with cloud cover and flow will turn to the southwest as...
Since the first primal grunt, humans have heavily relied on communication to survive. We use the art of language to sculpt our society, to stimulate our economy, and to describe the glorious beauty of nature. Without an effective method of communication, chaos would reign and...
The Christmas storm brought snow to the mountains & valleys in SW Colorado yesterday and early this morning. With trough passage the flow shifted to the north side of the range as it dove southeast into New Mexico cutting off snow showers on the south...
Like many of you, I was deeply affected by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last week. I wrote this poem in response to the incident. May 2013 bring a more peaceful world. [caption id="attachment_26240" align="alignright" width="225"] Kicking through snow[/caption] Newsreel A week out. Our minds Battered...
Change is moving our way as the ridge of high pressure and Colorado blue skies break down with a plume of moisture associated with an upper low moving inland in pieces from the Pacific NW this weekend. Clouds are on the increase today/tonight/Sunday morning with...
