Category: Colorado Mileposts
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Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive
My husband and I went to Washington DC for a few days last month for his high school reunion. While there we did the whole tourist thing on the DC Mall, looking at the monuments and visiting the museums. It was fun and fascinating. The thing that surprised me the most was that I felt…
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Great Time at Superior Colorado Costco Book Signing
My Costco book signing for my book, A Natural History of Trail Ridge Road: Rocky Mountain National Park’s Highway to the Sky was good. Really all of my events have been good, just a pleasure to get out and talk to people about Trail Ridge Road. Interesting things that happened to me there: Some guy came…
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Another Great Spring for Wildflowers
The wet spring has produced another bumper crop of wildflowers in the foothills. Some of the showiest flowers I’ve seen this year are both in the evening-primrose family (Onegraceae) — not to be confused with the primrose family (Primulaceae). That is why there is a hyphen in evening-primrose — to indicate that it’s borrowing the…
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Crows and Ravens
We have both crows and ravens in our neighborhood on Green Mountain, west of Denver. Angry Bird’s feathers ruffled They can be surprisingly hard to tell apart. Crows usually live in groups, using many different calls, the most common being the caw. They are smaller, sleeker birds. The big giveaway for me, though, is their…
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At the PLA Conference
I was lucky enough to work the Women Writing the West booth at the Public Librarians Association (PLA) Conference in Denver last week. We had a whole lot of fun, first setting the booth up, and then sharing Women Writing the West with librarians from across the country. We were able to share dozens of…
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Valley of the Cranes
My husband and I went down to the San Luis Valley, in south central Colorado, last weekend. We’ve been down there to see the sandhill crane migration several times in the last few years (Miniature Upslope Storm), and it is always an amazing experience. Twenty thousand cranes pass through the San Luis Valley in late…
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Nuthatches pairing up
We’ve had a couple of red-breasted nuthatches coming to our bird baths up on Green Mountain this week. I’ve always enjoyed nuthatches because they remind me of darts that have been thrown really hard. After doing some research, I learned that you can tell males from females because males have black stripes on their heads,…
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Downy Woodpecker Stops By
By and large, this winter has been notable for the lack of birds we’ve had come by. We just haven’t had many birds since the Week of Water in 2013. (Record-demolishing Storm) We still have most of our feeders up, but we are currently feeding squirrels with occasional house fiches, mourning and collared doves, and…
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AAA EnCompass Article Includes Trail Ridge Road
Last fall, I had the pleasure of chatting about Trail Ridge Road with writer Clay Latimer, as he gathered information on an article about six of Colorado’s most spectacular highways. The results are in his wonderful article “Colorado’s Highway History”(Colorado Highway History). Also, check out my new website — AmyLawAuthor — where to buy my…
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Not reindeer, but…
We had a small herd of deer come into our yard this week. We’ve had deer in the neighbor’s yards before (Backyard Deer), but with our dogs, this is the first time in years that they’ve come into ours. The recent cold weather has kept the snow from recent storms on the ground longer than…
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